Affliction Quotes

353 quotes by 250 authors

A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in spite… — Elaine A. Cannon
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the… — Kenny Smith
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one… — Simone Weil
Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction. — Jack Hyles
Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat… — Hubert Harrison
To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state of distress, those… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. — Antonio Machado
Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as… — Watchman Nee
There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions… — Joseph Hall
Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed,… — Henry Ward Beecher
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. — John Tillotson
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in… — Barbara Deming
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill… — George Downame
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should… — Thomas Boston
Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God… — Thomas Boston
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems… — Carl Jung
The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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