Affliction Quotes · Page 9

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

— Thomas a Kempis

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

— Thomas Watson

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

— Jane Elliott

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

— Lydia Lunch

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

— Patricia McCormick

“Genuine faith comes forth from the iron smelter of affliction.”

— Robin Bertram

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

— Charles Spurgeon

The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why…

— Nhat Hanh

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

— Sol LeWitt

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ...…

— Hubert Harrison

I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And…

— Seamus Heaney

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it,…

— Thomas Boston

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape…

— Walter Savage Landor

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of…

— Thomas Watson

Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance…

— Carl Jung

The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part…

— John Adams

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,…

— Simone Weil

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

Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without…

— James Martineau

There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed…

— Joseph Hall

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see…

— Blaise Pascal

Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.

— Susanna Rowson

My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.

— Marion G. Romney

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

— Robert Southey

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

— Ann McLane Kuster

“Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always looks around for the wine.”

— Samuel Rutherford

He knows there is more like him and they are goin to pay for his affliction.

— Boondox

“For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.”

— George Herbert

Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

— Aubrey Thomas de Vere

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

— Ouida

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

— Charles Spurgeon

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

— Thomas Watson

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

— Teresa of Avila

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

— Philip Sidney

“The affliction in the flesh of soul is temporal compare to the eternal glory of the spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

— Penelope Lively