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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 Burroughs
in all your afflictions He is afflicted, and
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
— Benjamin Franklin
As Christians, if sin were the reason for our afflictions, then we should all be in ICU"~ R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods
We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.
— Sylvia Boorstein
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
— Robert Hall
Afflictions are the steps to heaven.
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
— Berthold Auerbach
If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.
— Moffat Machingura
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.
— Rose Of Lima
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
— Matthew Henry
Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more. — T. B. Joshua
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
— William Faulkner
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions
— Bryant McGill
One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.
— John Wesley
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
— George Washington
Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.
— Joseph Addison
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.
— Augustus William Hare
God afflicts people for a reason
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
— Thomas Brooks
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.
— Thomas Watson
Your mercies are more than your afflictions.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
— Antonio Machado
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
— Thomas Brooks
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
— Charles Spurgeon
I was already smitten, aroused, attracted, and addicted to him.
— Jameson Currier
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
— Heath L'Estrange
Afflictions clarify the soul;And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. — Francis Quarles
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
— Samuel Rutherford
Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.
— Francis De Sales
Given that grief remained the most general of afflictions its literature seemed remarkably spare.
— Joan Didion
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.
— David Viscott
Some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.
— Lionel Shriver
Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.
— George MacDonald
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
— Matthew Henry
Faith is having a path that leads you to freedom, liberation, and the transformation of afflictions.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
— William Gurnall
All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.
— George Whitefield
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.
— Isaac Of Nineveh
What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
— Isabel Allende
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
— Robert Frost
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
— George Sand
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
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
— George MacDonald
Job's sickness and afflictions didn't build his character; they revealed the character he already had.
— Praying Medic
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
— Edna O'Brien
The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.
— Sebastian Barry
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
— William Arthur Ward
Afflictions clarify the soul.
— Francis Quarles
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.
— Saint John Chrysostom
When we start rating each other's lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.
— Ariana Carruth
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
— John Flavel
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 dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday's affliction and the hope of tomorrow's gifts.
— Ariana Carruth
From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.
— Charles Spurgeon
Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Of all the afflictions mortal man must face, it is the torment of guilt that cannot be diminished, neither will it be satisfied.
— Randy McWilson
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.
— John Angell James
