Afflictions Quotes

117 Afflictions quotes by 92 unique authors

My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to… — 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
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

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