The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of... — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
“Pain demands to be felt," he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal… — Israel Regardie Copy Share Image
Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Affliction is not some test that simply exists to build our character. It beats us up. It changes us. It sobers us.… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets,… — George Downame Copy Share Image
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved,… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need… — Kelly Lin Copy Share Image
May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold… — Al-Ghazali 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
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
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
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
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction. — Saadi Copy Share Image
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.” — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent. — John of the Cross 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
The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
![“May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom… How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning…” quote by Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c7/rainer-maria-rilke-193_abode_may-i-strike-my-heart-s-keys-clearly-and_52479.jpg)
