Affliction Quotes
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God can cause us to forget all our toil and make us fruitful even in the land of our affliction. That
— S. Michael Wilcox
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
— John Bunyan
There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
— Thomas Watson
We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
— George MacDonald
How you deal with money reflects how you deal with power. Is it an affliction or a blessing? A game or a burden?
— Anthony Robbins
The Wonderlustprobably it's a worse affliction than the Wanderlust. — Sinclair Lewis
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
— William Browne
Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.
— Pio Of Pietrelcina
Afflictions are the steps to heaven.
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
May the Lord comfort the afflicted souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn't change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her.
— Tamara Hughes
Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more. — T. B. Joshua
Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the 'civilized' as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.
— Vinod Pande
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.
— Frederick William Robertson
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?
— Alexander MacLaren
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
— Muriel Spark
Farts demand to be passed," Augustus said, which was a line from A Posterior Affliction.
— Adam Aarons
The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim — Emily Dickinson
Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.
— Susanna Rowson
The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.
— Charles Spurgeon
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
— Thomas Watson
Welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, Sit thee down, sorrow!
— William Shakespeare
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
— Hannah More
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
Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.
— Aubrey Thomas De Vere
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
— James Baldwin
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.
— John Angell James
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
— John William Fletcher
The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
— Thomas A Kempis
Travel causes some affliction of the eye, and after a while no place it rests looks like home.
— Sean Russell
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
— George Sand
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
— William Gurnall
Genuine faith comes forth from the iron smelter of affliction.
— Robin Bertram
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.
— Ovid
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
— Thomas Southerne
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
— Richard Sibbes
There's only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.
— Margaret Atwood
Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.
— William Shakespeare
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
— D.L. Moody
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.
— Thomas Brooks
If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.
— Jean De La Bruyere
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
— John Greenleaf Whittier
DEVIL Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. WM-ST-62
— Kahlil Gibran
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
— Simone Weil
Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were "wheelchair" saints. May God give you grace to "triumph in affliction.
— Billy Graham
Writing is not a talent. It is an affliction.
— Mike Engleman
Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.
— Billy Graham
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.
— Jonathan Sacks
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.
— Ambrose Bierce
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
— Charles Spurgeon
Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.
— Samuel Rutherford
I'm an insomniac - the affliction of champions.
— Emma Chase
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
— John Flavel
Affliction is a mother,Whose painful throes yield many sons,
Each fairer than the other. — Henry Vaughan
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
— Thomas Binney
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
— Ambrose Bierce
She was socially inept, an affliction I am quite intimate with.
— Rabih Alameddine
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.
— Richard Cecil
Affliction does not come by chance - the weight of every stroke of the rod - is accurately measured.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more.
— Maximilian Kolbe
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
— Victor Hugo
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
Go, sorrowing son of affliction, tell thy secrets to the Friend who sticketh closer than a brother.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is good for me that I have been afflicted.
— Mary Rowlandson
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.
— Robert Aris Willmott
The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.
— Simone Weil
Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.
— Ann McLane Kuster
