Affliction Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

“Be patient in painful times.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.”

— Lucille Clifton

“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.”

— George Washington

“You can’t comfort the afflicted,” the note read, “without afflicting the comfortable.”

— Christopher Andersen

“The severest affliction is the one which has never been tried.”

— Publius Syrus

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

— David Mallet

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

— Charles Spurgeon

“Affliction is not some test that simply exists to build our character. It beats us up. It changes us. It sobers us. It raises…

— Russ Ramsey

“Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.”

— Karen White

“Patience is the golden virtue in doctorhood.”

— Abhijit Naskar

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

— Pierre Corneille