Accustomed Quote by Claudius Claudianus Download Open image “The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.” — Claudius Claudianus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accustomed Affliction Funny Inspirational Love
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. — John Angell James Copy Share Image
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Afflictions quicken us to prayer. It is a pity it should be so; but experience testifies, that a long course of ease and prosperity, without painful changes—has an unhappy tendency to make us cold and formal in our secret worship. But troubles rouse our spirits, and constrain us to call upon the Lord in good earnest—when we feel a need… — John Newton Copy Share
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease waging civil… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their… — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. — Dana Reeve Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
