If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. — James Burgh Copy Share Image
When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. — Rosalind Russell Copy Share Image
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it… — Zhang Sanfeng Copy Share Image
You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“For believers in Christ, affliction often has a softening effect on the heart. This is why cancer patients are posting uplifting thoughts… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the… — Tobias Crisp Copy Share Image
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy. — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction? — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Pain demands to be felt," he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
