Affliction Quotes

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Afflictions are the steps to heaven. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist… — Oswald Chambers
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. — Jessye Norman
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the… — Steve Almond
Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to… — Criss Jami
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour… — John Brown
Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. — Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin. — Samuel Rutherford
I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree. — Nicholson Baker
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction… — Ignatius Loyola
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. — Augustus William Hare
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my… — Kay Arthur
In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly… — Jeffrey R. Holland
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was… — A. E. Hotchner
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the… — Charles Caleb Colton
Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul. — Pio of Pietrelcina
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. — Bodhidharma
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their… — Ann Radcliffe
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. — William Shakespeare

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