Affliction Quotes

353 quotes by 250 authors

No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour… — Joseph Hall
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. — James Burgh
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. — Benjamin Franklin
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. — Mary Baker Eddy
Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength… — Delbert L. Stapley
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven. — Pio of Pietrelcina
Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it. — Denise Levertov
The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but… — George Downame
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. — John Angell James
I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit… — Joseph Williams
God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith… — John Howe
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. — Wes Fesler
I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still… — Melissa McCarthy
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. — Jean de la Bruyere
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist. — David Mamet
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't… — Stanley Kunitz
It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a… — Melissa McCarthy
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods… — Max Beerbohm
Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more… — Claire Smith

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