Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord;… — Daniel Cawdry 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
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
The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger -… — Dalai Lama 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
It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? — Alexander MacLaren 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
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. — John Angell James Copy Share Image
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy,… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
