Affliction Quotations | Page 2

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

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

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

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.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.

But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).

There is healing in the bitter cup.

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

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

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

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

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.".

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

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plow enriches the field; to

The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part will require a purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues, or there will be no blessings.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

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

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

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

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.