Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“As I took up life as a minister, I tried to understand why so many people resisted and rejected God, I soon… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“To see her is a picture— To hear her is a tune— To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June— To… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change.… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life... We are… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I’ve discovered a new affliction; it’s called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what I’m working on and I tell them… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
