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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

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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

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it. — Denise Levertov

The Wonderlust
probably 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

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction. — Plautus

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

Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles! — Thomas Watson

Afflictions are the steps to heaven. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction. — Fay Weldon

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

Affliction may be for our edification and Christian development. — Billy Graham

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

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them. — Billy Graham

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

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
'Tis true the hardest science to forget. — Alexander Pope

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

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction — Virgil

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

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

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

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form. — Bodhidharma

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

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt

Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. — William Shakespeare

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

She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385) — Jorge Amado

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

Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer. — Stacy Schiff

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

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

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

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. — John Adams

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. — Ben Jonson

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

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. — Thomas Boston

I'm an insomniac - the affliction of champions. — Emma Chase

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. — Max Beerbohm

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

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

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

Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. — Ray Bradbury

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

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times. — Baha'u'llah

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

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go. — John Powell

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

Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions. — John Muir