Affliction Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort … our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising … our…

— Julian of Norwich

I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and…

— Kerry Washington

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's…

— Colm Toibin

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow,…

— Tryon Edwards

The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble.

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

— Leigh Hunt

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but…

— George C. Lorimer

“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score of other…

— Maurice Francis Egan

“A feeling of pleasure or solace can be so hard to find when you are in the depths of your grief. Sometimes it's the…

— Elizabeth Berrien

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau