Afflictions Quotes

117 quotes by 92 authors

I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit… — Joseph Williams
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them. — Unknown Author
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt
My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence.Â I find it a sweet and rich thing… — Samuel Rutherford
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the… — George Washington
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. — Matthew Henry
The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the… — Gautama Buddha
Behold, for years and generations, the way of God has been leveled by the cross and by death. How is this with thee, that thou… — Isaac of Nineveh
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it… — Plato
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to… — Unknown Author
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people… — Ibrahim Babangida
When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life... We are meant to learn… — Dallin H. Oaks
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of… — John Bunyan
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we… — J C Ryle
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
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou
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

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