Affliction Quote by Mary Baker Eddy Download Open image “Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.” — Mary Baker Eddy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affliction Be grateful Contemplating Depth Grateful Gratitude
“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
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
My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings. — Thomas S. Monson 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
Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom… How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year—; not only… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image