When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. — Rosalind Russell Copy Share Image
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon… — Benedict Joseph Labre Copy Share Image
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at… — Matthieu Ricard 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange… — J. C. Ryle 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
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
“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
“Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Atonement of Jesus Christ and the healing it offers do much more than provide the opportunity for repentance from sins. The… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm… — John Piper Copy Share Image
When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes… — Simone Weil 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)
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