Quotes about Affliction

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! Votes: 6

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. Votes: 6

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. Votes: 6

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. Votes: 5

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. Votes: 4

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. Votes: 4

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. Votes: 4

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. Votes: 4

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. Votes: 4

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Votes: 4

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. Votes: 4

Affliction is a good man's shining time. Votes: 3

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing. Votes: 3

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. Votes: 3

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften. Votes: 3

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. Votes: 3

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library. Votes: 3

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Votes: 3

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. Votes: 3

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. Votes: 3

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. Votes: 3

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it. Votes: 3

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. Votes: 3

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it. Votes: 3

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. Votes: 3

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. Votes: 3

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. Votes: 3

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away. Votes: 3

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!. Votes: 3

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. Votes: 3

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. Votes: 3

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other. Votes: 3

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. Votes: 3

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. Votes: 3

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. Votes: 3

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Votes: 3

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. Votes: 3

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise Votes: 3

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it. Votes: 3

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. Votes: 3

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown. Votes: 3

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. Votes: 3

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions. Votes: 3

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. Votes: 3

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. Votes: 3

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away. Votes: 3

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. Votes: 3

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. Votes: 3

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world. Votes: 3

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul. Votes: 3

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold. Votes: 3

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it. Votes: 3

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him. Votes: 3

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. Votes: 3

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction. Votes: 3

Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God. Votes: 3

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. Votes: 3

I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. Votes: 3

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not. Votes: 3

To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand. Votes: 3

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest. Votes: 3

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us Votes: 3

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. Votes: 1

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. Votes: 1

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. Votes: 1

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction. Votes: 1

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me. Votes: 1

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Votes: 1

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 Votes: 1

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. Votes: 1

I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. Votes: 1

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Votes: 1

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction. Votes: 0

God measures out affliction to our need. Votes: 0

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction. Votes: 0

The real affliction of old age is remorse. Votes: 0

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. Votes: 0

Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction. Votes: 0

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction. Votes: 0

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction. Votes: 0

In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified. Votes: 0

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith Votes: 0

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction. Votes: 0

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it. Votes: 0

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. Votes: 0

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me Votes: 0

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction Votes: 0

A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread. Votes: 0

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. Votes: 0

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. Votes: 0

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience. Votes: 0

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned Votes: 0

Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Votes: 0

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. Votes: 0

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. Votes: 0

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. Votes: 0

Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it Votes: 0

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. Votes: 0

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it. Votes: 0

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form. Votes: 0

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction. Votes: 0

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget. Votes: 0

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. Votes: 0

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted. Votes: 0

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright. Votes: 0

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. Votes: 0

The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth. Votes: 0

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. Votes: 0

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction. Votes: 0

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise. Votes: 0

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. Votes: 0

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. Votes: 0

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. Votes: 0

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. Votes: 0

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of... Votes: 0

The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy. Votes: 0

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. Votes: 0

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. Votes: 0

In times of adversity and affliction, may you wait for the Lord to rescue and deliver you. Votes: 0

Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction. Votes: 0

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction. Votes: 0

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. Votes: 0

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. Votes: 0

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. Votes: 0

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. Votes: 0

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace. Votes: 0

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction. Votes: 0

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. Votes: 0

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction. Votes: 0

My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction. Votes: 0

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction. Votes: 0

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp. Votes: 0

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. Votes: 0

In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined.In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified. Votes: 0

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days. Votes: 0

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy. Votes: 0

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction? Votes: 0

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction Votes: 0

Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more. Votes: 0

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. Votes: 0

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul. Votes: 0

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive. Votes: 0

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger. Votes: 0

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction. Votes: 0

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! Votes: 0

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot. Votes: 0

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! Votes: 0

By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction. Votes: 0

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. Votes: 0

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. Votes: 0

Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it. Votes: 0

Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it. Votes: 0

You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward. Votes: 0

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times. Votes: 0

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves. Votes: 0

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. Votes: 0

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. Votes: 0

Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul. Votes: 0

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night. Votes: 0

My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die. Votes: 0

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant. Votes: 0

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us. Votes: 0

When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short. Votes: 0

Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist. Votes: 0

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God. Votes: 0

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion. Votes: 0

In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction. Votes: 0

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery. Votes: 0

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow. Votes: 0

I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned. Votes: 0

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ. Votes: 0

We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. Votes: 0

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings. Votes: 0

After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts. Votes: 0

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction. Votes: 0

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed. Votes: 0

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have. Votes: 0

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven. Votes: 0

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me. Votes: 0

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it. Votes: 0

By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, and makes us long for heaven. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. Votes: 0

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy. Votes: 0

The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like the Apostle Paul-is available for every affliction in mortality. Votes: 0

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. Votes: 0

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Votes: 0

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them. Votes: 0

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days. Votes: 0

He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept affliction is taken prisoner by evil thoughts, even though he resists them. Votes: 0

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us. Votes: 0

Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction. Votes: 0

At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires. Votes: 0

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times. Votes: 0

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction. Votes: 0

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction. Votes: 0

I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me. Votes: 0

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief. Votes: 0

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. Votes: 0