Afflictions Quotes

117 Afflictions quotes by 92 unique authors

Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules… — George Herbert
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral… — Edmund Gosse
Your mercies are more than your afflictions. — Jeremiah Burroughs
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he… — Stephen Charnock
Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin,… — Unknown Author
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — William Faulkner
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
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
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
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
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
God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That doesn't mean he… — Barbara Johnson
From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing. — Charles Spurgeon
There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy. — John Calvin
We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions. — Jeffrey R. Holland

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