Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. — Robert Aris Willmott 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
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
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
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of… — Joseph Williams Copy Share Image
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Many of the most important principles of intelligence cannot by taught at universities, from books, or through other temporal learning processes. Often… — Monte J. Brough Copy Share Image
Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience… — Mark Chironna Copy Share Image
Behold, for years and generations, the way of God has been leveled by the cross and by death. How is this with… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
“For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
![“afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mental consciousnesses]. however, when any of the afflicting mental factors becomes manifest, a main mind [a mental consciousness] comes under its influence, goes…” quote by Dalai Lama XIV](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2e/dalai-lama-xiv-1700_emptiness_afflictions-are-classed-as-peripheral-me_1418999.jpg)
