Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
This is my affliction. You were my addiction. Now I am such a fan, catch me if you can. — Burnham Copy Share Image
As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst. — William Jenkyn Copy Share Image
“Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.” — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more. — Rihanna Copy Share Image
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us… — John Powell Copy Share Image
It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“While racial minorities across every civilized country in the world are still waiting for their break, our kind (stutterers) became emperors (i.e.,… — Anas Hamshari Copy Share Image
Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being… — William Banting Copy Share Image
Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all… — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
“It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Those who have entered into the afflictions of Christ for His Church's sake know something of what they mean, for they have… — Jessie Penn-Lewis Copy Share Image
God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has,… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. — John Newton Copy Share Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven. — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the… — Magdalena de Pazzi Copy Share Image
