"We should be more anxious that our afflictions……" — Robert Hall
"We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us."
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Robert Hall
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11 Quotes by Robert Hall
Robert Hall has 11 quotes on this site.
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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
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Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended…
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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives…
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We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value…
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Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate…
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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
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He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon…
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Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error
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Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
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More Afflictions Quotes
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one of 117 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of…
— John Climacus
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within…
— Joseph Addison
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The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in…
— Brother Lawrence
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There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain,…
— John Bunyan
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Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid…
— John Flavel
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The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
— John Flavel
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ.…
— Richard Sibbes
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The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
— Richard Sibbes
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Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
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