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
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
“Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Many of the most important principles of intelligence cannot by taught at universities, from books, or through other temporal learning processes. Often… — Monte J. Brough Copy Share Image
To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 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
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings… — Robert E. Murray 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
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse;… — George Washington 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
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
