“To see her is a picture— To hear her is a tune— To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June— To… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change.… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts… — Jimmy Scott 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
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
We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord;… — Daniel Cawdry Copy Share Image
Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise;… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee 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 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
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
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
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
God tested Abraham. That is, he sent him afflictions for his benefit, not so that he could find out what sort of… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply… — David Wilkerson 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
If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all… — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
“It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Those who have entered into the afflictions of Christ for His Church's sake know something of what they mean, for they have… — Jessie Penn-Lewis Copy Share Image
God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has,… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. — John Newton Copy Share Image
You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the… — Magdalena de Pazzi Copy Share Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven. — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
