Affliction Quote by Mary Rowlandson

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth…

— Bible

“The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup” (Psalm 16:5). What do you get when you come to the Supper, you compromised, double-hearted,…

— Gerrit Dawson

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the…

— Bible

“All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The rough, irregular…

— Charles Dickens

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

— George Sand

“I drank the dregs of the wine to what remained of my health. I gave the last of my fervor for what remained of…

— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

— Anonymous

Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make…

— Clifton Fadiman

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:…

— Bible

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very…

— Ritu Ghatourey

And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: / For I say unto you, I…

— Bible

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a…

— Benjamin Franklin