Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of... — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always looks around for the wine.” — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it,… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it… — Zhang Sanfeng Copy Share Image
Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being… — William Banting Copy Share Image
Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction. — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction. — Susanna Rowson 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
“The affliction in the flesh of soul is temporal compare to the eternal glory of the spirit.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his. — Mario Vargas Llosa 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
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
This is my affliction. You were my addiction. Now I am such a fan, catch me if you can. — Burnham 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
“Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.” — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
