quotes about Affliction
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The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
-- Abu Bakr -
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
-- Al-Ghazali -
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
-- Alexander Pope -
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.
-- Alfred Adler -
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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
-- Andrew Coyle Bradley -
Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.
-- Ann McLane Kuster -
Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
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Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.
-- Aubrey Thomas de VereSource : Aubrey Thomas DE VERE (1842). “The Waldenses, Or the Fall of Rora: a Lyrical Sketch. With Other Poems”, p.295
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.
-- Billy Graham -
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Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.
-- Billy Graham -
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
-- Boethius -
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more of an affliction.
-- Claire Smith -
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The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
-- Claudius ClaudianusSource : "In Eutropium". II. 149,
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
-- Daniel Defoe -
When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.
-- David WilkersonSource : David Wilkerson (2012). “God Is Faithful: A Daily Invitation into the Father Heart of God”, p.43, Baker Books
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Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.
-- Denise Levertov -
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I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.
-- Derek Landy -
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
-- Fanny BurneySource : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics
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Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
-- Francis Atterbury -
Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights." "Oh." His polite tone had returned. "I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. "Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.
-- Gail Carson Levine -
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Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.
-- George Downame -
No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.
-- George Q. Cannon -
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
-- Hosea Ballou -
The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
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There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
-- J. C. Ryle -
Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction.
-- Jack Hyles -
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
-- James A. Baldwin -
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
-- James BurghSource : James Burgh (1816). “Of knowledge”, p.126
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Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned
-- Jane Elliott -
Your mercies are more than your afflictions.
-- Jeremiah Burroughs -
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
-- Jeremiah BurroughsSource : Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.58, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
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One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.
-- Jeremiah BurroughsSource : Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
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You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last, he was better for an affliction. But, a great many Godly men have been worse for their prosperity.
-- Jeremiah Burroughs -
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
-- Jessye Norman -
Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.
-- Jo Coudert -
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.
-- John Angell JamesSource : John Angell James (1841). “The widow directed to the widow's God”, p.117
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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
-- John BunyanSource : John Bunyan (1873). “The Complete Works”, p.79
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There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.
-- John Calvin -
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
-- John FlavelSource : John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.555
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Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
-- John Owen -
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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
-- John Tillotson -
true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
-- Jonathan Edwards -
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
-- Joseph Addison -
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.
-- Joseph HallSource : Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.120
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Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.
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The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.
-- Katsuki SekidaSource : Katsuki Sekida, Marc Allen (2013). “A Guide to Zen: Lessons from a Modern Master”, p.17, New World Library
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...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.
-- Lionel Shriver -
The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...
-- Lydia Lunch -
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
-- Mario Vargas Llosa -
Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it
-- Mary RowlandsonSource : Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.104, Diderot Publishing
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It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?
-- Melissa McCarthySource : "Melissa McCarthy's Emotional Interview: Finding Love, Coping with Critics and Becoming a Star – Her Way". people.com. June 25, 2014.
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With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.
-- Miguel de MolinosSource : Miguel de Molinos (2006). “The Spiritual Guide of Miguel Molinos”, p.124, Lulu.com
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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
-- Muriel Spark -
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
-- Naguib MahfouzSource : FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Mar 05, 2014
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It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more firmly, the finished righteousness of Christ. And what is the school in which he learns his nothingness, his poverty, his utter destitution? The school of deep and sanctified affliction. In no other school is it learned, and under no other teacher but God. Here his high thoughts are brought low, and the Lord alone is exalted.
-- Octavius Winslow -
A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.
-- Omar Kiam -
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.
-- Pierre Bayle -
We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.
-- Rahul Gandhi -
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When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
-- Richard SibbesSource : Richard Sibbes (2013). “The Bruised Reed”, p.80, Lulu Press, Inc
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Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.
-- Robert Aris WillmottSource : Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.295
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There is healing in the bitter cup.
-- Robert SoutheySource : Robert Southey “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag
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May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.
-- Scott CairnsSource : "Peering into the Looming Lenten Dark" by Scott Cairns, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.
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I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.
-- Seamus Heaney -
Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.
-- Shmuel Yosef AgnonSource : Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Walter Lever (2004). “Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam”, p.91, Terrace Books
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The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
-- Sigmund Freud -
If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.
-- Sir John DaviesSource : Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.683
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New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
-- Sol LeWittSource : Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag
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Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.
-- Stephen Charnock -
Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.
-- Susanna RowsonSource : Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing
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Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.
-- Sylvia Boorstein -
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
-- Thomas BinneySource : Thomas Binney (1853). “Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men”, p.76
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There will be no Christian but what will have a Gethsemane, but every praying Christian will find that there is no Gethsemane without its angel!
-- Thomas Binney -
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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There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.
-- Thomas Brooks -
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).
-- Thomas Pynchon -
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
-- Thomas SoutherneSource : Thomas Southerne (1713). “The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love”, p.295
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Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction
-- Virgil -
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The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.
-- Wes Fesler -
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
-- William Banting -
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
-- William Blake -
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
-- William Browne -
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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
-- William Gurnall -
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
-- Winifred Holtby -
God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.
-- Benedict Joseph Labre -
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.
-- Richard Cecil -