It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven. — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle… — Rose of Lima Copy Share Image
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St.… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
