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Tag Name "Affliction" (281)

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God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.
Theodore L. Cuyler
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Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.
Mary Baker Eddy
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The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.
Oswald Chambers
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What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Virgil
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The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction not to continue it is the remedy.
Katsuki Sekida
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As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.
Robert Bork
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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
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
George Washington
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If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
James Burgh
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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.
Sir John Davies
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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
Hosea Ballou
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The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
Claudius Claudianus
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Benjamin Franklin
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Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
Hannah More
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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.
Ignatius of Loyola
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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
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Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.
John Angell James
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There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.
Joseph Hall
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If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.
Khaled Hosseini
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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
Emily Dickinson
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Those who have entered into the afflictions of Christ for His Church's sake know something of what they mean, for they have learned in a measure to pour out their souls unto death, in fellowship with Him.
Jessie Penn-Lewis
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Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
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New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
Sol LeWitt
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Afflictions clarify the soul And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.
Francis Quarles
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