...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy. — Boethius Copy Share Image
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
There will be no Christian but what will have a Gethsemane, but every praying Christian will find that there is no Gethsemane… — Thomas Binney Copy Share Image
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
I'll put it this way, there was no C.P. Kennedy, there was no Dwight Dickham, we never went in the courtroom. That… — Susan Downey Copy Share Image
No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith… — John Henry Newman 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
It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
