Afflictions Quotes
117 Afflictions quotes by 92 unique authors
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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
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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
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Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
— Matthew Henry
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
— Thomas Brooks
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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
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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
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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
— Hosea Ballou
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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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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
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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
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Your mercies are more than your afflictions.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
— Antonio Machado
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Afflictions Quotes
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