Affliction Quotes

353 quotes by 250 authors

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned — Jane Elliott
Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion,… — Thomas Paine
My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction. — Marion G. Romney
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter,… — Izaak Walton
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. — J I Packer
I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able… — Seamus Heaney
The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright. — Charles Spurgeon
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted. — Charles Spurgeon
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ — C.S. Lewis
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all… — Thomas Jefferson
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the… — Walter Russell
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last.… — John Henry Newman
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown. — Soren Kierkegaard
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments. — Joseph Addison
. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about… — Vincent de Paul
You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and a consolation to… — Vincent de Paul
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we… — Victor Hugo
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its… — Samuel Rutherford
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse. — William Gurnall

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