God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger -… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots;… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my… — Tavoris Cloud Copy Share Image
The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle,… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
I believe the hard heartest, most cross grained and most unloving Christians in all the world are those who have not had… — Charles Spurgeon 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 common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of… — John Randolph Price Copy Share Image
. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown...… — Gertrude the Great Copy Share Image
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard,… — Brian Clough Copy Share Image
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough… — Stanley Kunitz 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
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
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
True healing must come first at the Soul level... prayer aligns our souls with God... By aligning ourselves with God - this… — Rosemary Ellen Guiley 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
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
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
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
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
It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are… — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
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
![“Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. [. . .] That useless thoughts spoil all: that the mischief began there; but that we ought to reject them, as soon as we perceived their impertinence to the matter in hand…” quote by Brother Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f59/brother-lawrence-4215_affliction_good-when-he-gives-supremely-good-nor-le_1937522.png)
