The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. — Robert Aris Willmott 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
God tested Abraham. That is, he sent him afflictions for his benefit, not so that he could find out what sort of… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as… — Samuel Rutherford 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
...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and… — John Wesley 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
He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your… — Nhat Hanh 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
“afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Behold, for years and generations, the way of God has been leveled by the cross and by death. How is this with… — Isaac of Nineveh 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
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
There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience… — Mark Chironna Copy Share Image
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