The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. — John Adams Copy Share Image
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn. — Miguel de Molinos Copy Share Image
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that… — Kyriacos C. Markides Copy Share Image
...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Hazel Grace,” he said. “Hi,” I said. “How are you?” “Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy,… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.” — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
