Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. — James Burgh Copy Share Image
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
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
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. — Matthew Henry 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
“If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.” — Bryant McGill 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
Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just… — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown. — Soren Kierkegaard 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
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
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
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
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
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
When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more… — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
