Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
“If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St.… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. — Matthew Henry 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
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
Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings… — Robert E. Murray Copy Share Image
Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm… — Gail Carson Levine 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
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his… — Richard Steele 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
Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. — Francis Quarles 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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