Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm… — John Piper Copy Share Image
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction? — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need… — Kelly Lin Copy Share Image
My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a… — Tennessee Williams 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
Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. In all our afflictions, He afflicted. He feels all… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread. — Omar Kiam Copy Share Image
“For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
