Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it,… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. — Aubrey Thomas de Vere Copy Share Image
Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. — Brother Lawrence 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
It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. — Joseph Hall 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
By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ — C. S. Lewis 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
Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more… — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — Plato Copy Share Image
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
