Affliction Quotes

353 quotes by 250 authors

It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your… — John Flavel
Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it — Mary Rowlandson
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou
When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set… — David Wilkerson
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do… — A. R. Ammons
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules… — George Herbert
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. — Joseph Hall
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not… — William Wordsworth
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does… — Ovid
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral… — Edmund Gosse
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! — Jeremiah Burroughs
Your mercies are more than your afflictions. — Jeremiah Burroughs
You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while… — Jeremiah Burroughs
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he… — Stephen Charnock
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs… — Jonathan Sacks
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce
Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin,… — Tobias Crisp
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — William Faulkner
At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished… — Neal A. Maxwell

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