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
Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!. — William Shakespeare 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
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy. — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It is for my good that I was afflicted, so that I might learn Your statutes. [...] Had Your Torah not been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. — Mencius Copy Share Image
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly… — Delbert L. Stapley Copy Share Image
What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment!… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly,… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne 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 takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most… — Joseph Caryl 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
We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
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