Affliction Quotes

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. — H.G. Wells
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save… — Ellen G. White
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be… — Abraham Lincoln
In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins… — Martin Luther
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love… — Jonathan Safran Foer
And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will… — Daniel Defoe
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace. — Thomas Watson
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and… — Simone Weil
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish… — Thomas Pynchon
To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction-… — Emily Dickinson
This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me — Patricia McCormick
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them;… — Marcel Proust
â€¦I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as… — Lawrence Durrell
Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. — Jose Marti
No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never… — George Q. Cannon
If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if… — Khaled Hosseini
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. — Charles Spurgeon

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