It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. -Psalm 119:71 — Bible Copy Share Image
I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. — Halford Luccock Copy Share Image
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“If we are a body, then we are one that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.” — Christena Cleveland Copy Share Image
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride. — Janet Street-Porter Copy Share Image
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“Why should I be so afflicted?” she would later ask. “I have never harmed a living thing. What have I done to… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted… — David Shuster Copy Share Image
What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more for the… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the… — Robert Drew Copy Share Image
I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one… — Jim Valvano Copy Share Image
Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the… — William Styron Copy Share Image
What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
“ (...)"He said we all have this different idea of what love is and that's what makes our circle. The more ideas… — Brandon Shire Copy Share Image
“ Hunter turned and kissed Dillon deeply before he rinsed off. He had never wished for his sight before, but he would… — Brandon Shire Copy Share Image
If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
“You can’t comfort the afflicted,” the note read, “without afflicting the comfortable.” — Christopher Andersen Copy Share Image
“The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image