Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve. — Thomas Binney Copy Share Image
A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and the support of the flesh a curse written upon your brow,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
“All troubles, afflictions, and ultimately birth and death follow the same highway out of one’s own unmoving perfect self-nature.” — Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au Copy Share Image
If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing… — George Wigram Copy Share Image
“affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just… — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image
Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon… — Benedict Joseph Labre Copy Share Image
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle… — Rose of Lima Copy Share Image
