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
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce 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
We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it… — Rahul Gandhi 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
Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the… — Tobias Crisp Copy Share Image
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn. — Miguel de Molinos Copy Share Image
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors,… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and… — Joseph Addison 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
Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human… — Flora Tristan 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
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
All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
