Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it — Mary Rowlandson Copy Share Image
“...the furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions,… — Elaine A. Cannon Copy Share Image
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors,… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life... We are… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But… — Arthur W. Pink 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
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
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
