Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The main recipients of injustice in any society are the afflicted the distressed and the troubled one, both in soul and in… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My father,” she admitted, “was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured.” She paused. “Though he did die. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“Simone Weil was absolutely right- beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“having the people you love tell you they love you and mean it . . . it never goes out of style.… — Laurell K Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us… More over, when we have repented, He instantly… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“[Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings… — Robert Murray McCheyne Copy Share Image
When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits;… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“...the furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it — Mary Rowlandson Copy Share Image
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
![“[Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.” quote by Robert Murray McCheyne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e2/robert-murray-mccheyne-40307_affliction_suffering-brings-out-graces-that-cannot_2543652.jpg)
