Affliction Quotes

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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it… — Plato
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to… — Zhang Sanfeng
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it… — L. W. Sumner
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. — Joseph Addison
Love couldn't be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies-skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn't deny what it wanted most once… — Rachel Wade
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people… — Ibrahim Babangida
After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due… — Kyriacos C. Markides
"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there… — Alexander MacLaren
The Lord has said, â€˜I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.â€™ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will… — Neal A. Maxwell
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a… — William Banting
Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the… — Samuel Hahnemann
When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life... We are meant to learn… — Dallin H. Oaks
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet… — Wilford Woodruff
Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at… — Lorenzo Snow
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of… — John Bunyan
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. — Thomas Brooks
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks
I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a… — Charles Spurgeon
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we… — J C Ryle

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