Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. — Ben Jonson 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
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that… — Kyriacos C. Markides 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
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
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Hazel Grace,” he said. “Hi,” I said. “How are you?” “Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a… — John Green Copy Share Image
We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is… — L. W. Sumner Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days. — William Browne Copy Share Image
Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
