Quotes and Sayings about Affliction
"Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning."
- Francis Atterbury
(Related: Virtue, Affliction, Confidence, School)
"Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt."
- Berthold Auerbach
(Related: Self)
"At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs."
- Ibrahim Babangida
(Related: Society, People, African, Fault, Majority, Reality)
"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Job)
"The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Affliction)
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Affliction, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Affliction, Being, May, Profit, Treatment)
"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."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Genius, Gods, Affliction, Man, Spiritual)
"The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion."
- Bodhidharma
(Related: Anger, Delusion, Greed, Infinite, Mind)
"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Virtue, Affliction)
"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
(Related: Death, Children, Job)
"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 pleases."
- Anne Bradstreet
(Related: Men, God, Affliction)
"Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house."
- Thomas Brooks
(Related: Father)
"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Death, Affliction)
"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"
- Robert Burns
(Related: Brother, Affliction, Brothers, Sons)
"God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction."
- Richard Cecil
(Related: Love, Experience, God, Hope, Christian, Affliction, Patience, Prayer)
"Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution."
- Barbara Deming
(Related: Anger, Change, Determination, Affliction, Fact, Revolution)
"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it."
- John Donne
(Related: Affliction, Man, Treasure)
"We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us."
- Robert Hall
"Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions."
- Matthew Henry
(Related: Spiritual)
"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."
- Matthew Henry
(Related: Punishment)
"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
(Related: Affliction, Duty, Open, Solitude, Sorrow)
"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Faith, People, Christ, Passion)
"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."
- Christopher Love
(Related: God, Affliction, Ending, Measure, Want)
"Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings."
- George MacDonald
(Related: God, Shadows)
"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."
- David Mallet
(Related: Virtue, Affliction, Honor, Humility, Patience)
"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God."
- Dwight L. Moody
(Related: God, Affliction, Forget, Prosperity)
"I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell."
- Jessye Norman
(Related: Affliction, Word)
"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."
- Ovid
(Related: Men, Friend, Absence)
"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Science, Time, Morality, Knowledge, Affliction, Ignorance, Vanity, Will)
"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Affliction, Defeat)
"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: Affliction)
"Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves."
- Robert Southey
(Related: God, Affliction, Man)
"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Affliction, Soldiers)
"Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows."
- Thomas Sydenham
(Related: Laws, Mortality)
"Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you."
- Miguel de Unamuno
(Related: God, Idea, Affliction, Caring, Concern, Cure, May)
"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
(Related: Cure, Disease)
"Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions."
- William Arthur Ward
(Related: Humanity)
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
- George Washington
(Related: Heart)
"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."
- Simone Weil
(Related: Affliction, Compassion, Listening)
"No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: Affliction, Man)
"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
- H. G. Wells
(Related: Affliction)