He knows there is more like him and they are goin to pay for his affliction. — Boondox Copy Share Image
Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. — Aubrey Thomas de Vere Copy Share Image
“For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.” — George Herbert Copy Share Image
From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing… — George Wigram Copy Share Image
“affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“All troubles, afflictions, and ultimately birth and death follow the same highway out of one’s own unmoving perfect self-nature.” — Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au Copy Share Image
A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve. — Thomas Binney Copy Share Image
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots;… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction;… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his… — Richard Steele 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
His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov 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
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
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
... 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
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“The affliction in the flesh of soul is temporal compare to the eternal glory of the spirit.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst. — William Jenkyn Copy Share Image