We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change.… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved,… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. — John Adams 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
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see… — Blaise Pascal 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
...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it — Mary Rowlandson Copy Share Image
Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days. — William Browne 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
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. — James Burgh Copy Share Image
