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Affliction Quotes by Joseph Addison
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails…
- Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
- We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.
More Affliction Quotes
- The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
- The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
- Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a… — James A. Baldwin
- As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
- God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace… — Richard Cecil
- No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be… — Victor Hugo
- What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need… — Unknown Author