Affliction Quotations

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

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.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

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

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

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

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

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

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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.

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

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

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

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

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

I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

We'd like to see this number strengthen, however, estimates have been revised lower, which is possibly a result of the same affliction that caused the drop in durable goods two weeks ago, namely a slowdown in aircraft orders.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.

When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

It's bad enough when you have got such a terrible affliction once. It's doubly bad when it comes around twice and three times is too bad to think about.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

Afflictions clarify the soul.

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That’s how we overcome, most of the time. It’s not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

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

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

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

One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.

Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

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

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; / Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.

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.

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights." "Oh." His polite tone had returned. "I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. "Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.

My father,” she admitted, “was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured.” She paused. “Though he did die.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.