Afflicted Quotes

156 quotes by 137 authors

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't… — Jonathan Stroud
Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur,… — Kristen Britain
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones… — Anne Lamott
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which… — Alain de Botton
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted. — Anne Bronte
Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more we are afflicted… — Isidore of Seville
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
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing… — Thomas Paine
The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life:… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Anxiety has afflicted me all my life. — Scott Stossel
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where,… — F. Sionil Jose
What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more for the sick and afflicted?… — David Josiah Brewer
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. — Jeremy Taylor
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. — Finley Peter Dunne
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. — Walter Salles
Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation… — Conrad Black
Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason.… — Michael Mann
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. — Bible
And if We make him taste a favor after distress has afflicted him, he will certainly say: The evils are gone away from me. Most… — Quran
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in homiletics That… — Ambrose Bierce

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