I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots;… — Samuel Rutherford 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
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury 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
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. — Robert Aris Willmott 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
The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon… — Benedict Joseph Labre Copy Share Image
The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits;… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I’ve discovered a new affliction; it’s called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what I’m working on and I tell them… — Michelle Forbes 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
My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the… — John Howe Copy Share Image
It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
