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Affliction Quotes by Simone Weil
- 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…
- When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point…
- There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
- Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to…
- Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and…
- The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the…
More Affliction Quotes
- 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
- What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need… — Kelly Lin
- No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be… — Victor Hugo
- Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in… — Tryon Edwards
- Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace… — Anne Bradstreet
- The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand… — Brother Lawrence
- Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching,… — John Flavel
- When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. — Richard Sibbes