When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it… — Zhang Sanfeng Copy Share Image
A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions,… — Elaine A. Cannon Copy Share Image
“Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. [. .… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and… — Thomas Boston 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
There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned… — Walter Scott 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
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. — Rosalind Russell Copy Share Image
In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we… — George Downame 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
The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
Love couldn't be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies-skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn't deny what it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and… — John Climacus 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
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
