It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.” — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction,… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is… — L. W. Sumner Copy Share Image
God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine 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
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
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
Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days. — William Browne Copy Share Image
“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
