All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.” — George Herbert Copy Share Image
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn. — Miguel de Molinos Copy Share Image
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to… — John Forbes Nash 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
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of… — Anonymous 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
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction,… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul,… — Richard Sibbes 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
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the… — Jerry Bridges 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
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.” — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
