Affection Quote by John Angell James Download Open image “Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.” — John Angell James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affection Affliction Grace Love World
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ — C. S. Lewis 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
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the… — Robert E. Murray 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,… — John Newton Copy Share Image
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to… — Benedict Joseph Labre Copy Share Image
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter. — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart, she will raise… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
You cannot be too active as regards your own efforts; you cannot be too dependent as regards Divine grace. Do every thing as if… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
“Let [the wife] guard, as much as possible, against a gloomy and moody disposition, which causes her to move about with the silence and… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour. — John Angell James Copy Share Image
The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
All who wait upon the Lord shall rise higher and higher upon the mighty pinions of strong devotion, and with the unblinking eye of… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
“It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share Image