Affliction Quote by Richard Sibbes

“Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn’t…

— Chris Cleave

All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything…

— Bette Midler

He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole…

— John of the Cross

“The world would condemn but they would rejoice; glorious outcasts, unashamed, triumphant!”

— Radclyffe Hall

The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

— Philip James Bailey

“Mad Lib Elegy" There are starving children left on your plate. There are injuries without brains. Migrant workers spend 23 hours a day removing…

— Ben Lerner

Fear is choosing the safe course

— George Bernard Shaw

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

— Frank Herbert

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

— Winston Churchill

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or…

— Winston Churchill

We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that…

— Billy Graham

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

— Thomas Watson

Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.

— Richard Sibbes

Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time…

— Richard Sibbes

The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

— Richard Sibbes