"Afflictions are... if we can so take them,……" — C.S. Lewis

"Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ"

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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
Total war is the most humane in the long run.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…

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More Affliction Quotes

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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