Afflict Quotes

52 quotes by 46 authors

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain… — Teresa of Avila
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. — Finley Peter Dunne
We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way… — Mark Twain
And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do… — Bible
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause… — Bible
We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. — Martin Buber
What we need most now as Americans is forbearance and tolerance of our fellow citizens who hold views opposite or different than our own. Forbearance… — John Lars Zwerenz
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. — Harold Geneen
Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God.… — Edith Schaeffer
We afflict the ones below us by only monitoring our success and the need to thrive even more. — Simon Quperlier

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