Adversity Quote by Thomas Watson Download Open image “Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.” — Thomas Watson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Affliction Fly away Puritan Sorrow Wings
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“The exquisite sorrows with which they had been afflicted, made them think lightly of every succeeding woe. They had felt the sharpest darts in… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
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
Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the… — Robert E. Murray Copy Share Image
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.” — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Oh, Christian, if you are overspread with this fretting leprosy, you carry the man of sin about you, for you set yourself above God… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than the good… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“This judgment is on many, the earth swallows up their time, and thoughts, and discourse, they are buried twice; their hearts are buried in… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“Upon our turning to God, we have more restored to us in Christ—than ever was lost in Adam. God says to the repenting soul,… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“To obey God, is not so much our duty—as our privilege; his commands carry food in the mouth of them. He bids us repent—and… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
