Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.” — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive. — Jo Coudert 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
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all… — David L. Katz Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we… — George Downame Copy Share Image
A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends… — Matthew Henry 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
As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't save you so you could cruise to heaven in a luxury liner. He wants you to be useful in His… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal 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
Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It… — Claire Smith Copy Share Image
Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction. — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it… — Rahul Gandhi Copy Share Image
