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Tag Name "Affliction" (281)

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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Robert Southey
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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 desires.
Anne Bradstreet
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It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
John Forbes Nash
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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.
John Flavel
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When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.
Charles Spurgeon
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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
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Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.
Rihanna
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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
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. What! said one of his disciples, you weep at the death of an enemy? Ah, 'tis true, replied the great Stoic but you should see me smile at the death of a friend..
Ambrose Bierce
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
Walter Savage Landor
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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.
Washington Irving
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.
Washington Irving
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Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.
Watchman Nee
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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
Tennessee Williams
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
William Arthur Ward
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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
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
Alexander Pope
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It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
William Blake
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Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
William Browne
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
William Cowper
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Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath it is called the rejoicing of hope (Hebrews 3:6).
William Gurnall
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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
William Gurnall
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Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.
William Gurnall
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Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
George MacDonald
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