Affliction Quote by William Faulkner

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

— P. G. Wodehouse

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

— Thomas Brooks

“Darknesse and light divide the course of time, and oblivion snares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember…

— Thomas Browne

“Afflictions quicken us to prayer. It is a pity it should be so; but experience testifies, that a long course of ease and prosperity,…

— John Newton

Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms…

— Johnny Carson

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

— Camille Flammarion

“I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse. The less a person thinks and inquires regarding the why and…

— Miles Franklin

“The Greatest Afflictions brings forth the Greatest Blessings.”

— Laphoia V.Long

“FOR SUFFERING May you be blessed in the holy names of those Who, without you knowing it, Help to carry and lighten your pain.…

— John O'Donohue

“Men have a great deal of pleasure in human knowledge, in studies of natural things; but this is nothing to that joy which arises…

— Jonathan Edwards

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

— Eric Mackay

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