Affliction Quotes - Page 18

• Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.

  Gertrude the Great

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Believe

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• In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my performance to be an inspiration to people. You have to stay in the moment and keep moving ahead. I just want to show everyone that you can find answers to your problems and afflictions with hard work and perseverance.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Perseverance, Moving, Inspiration

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• I believe the hard heartest, most cross grained and most unloving Christians in all the world are those who have not had much trouble in their life. And those that are the most sympathizing, loving and Christlike are generally those who have the most affliction. The worse thing that can happen to any of us is to have a path made too smooth. One of the greatest blessings the Lord ever gave us was a cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Believe, Blessing

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• Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spring, Men, Secret

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

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Shadow, Earth, Length

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Walter Lever (2004). “Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam”, p.91, Terrace Books

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• Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Encouragement, Religious, Rain

  Edith Schaeffer (1993). “Affliction”, p.27, Baker Books

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• I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

  Richard Steele

  Atheist, Light, People

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• Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Education, Remedy

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.295

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• I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't feel diseased by it. I just think that I enjoy life and life has many offerings. I feel lucky to be able to have a forum to share a lot of these ideas.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Offering, Ideas

  "Greg Graffin of Bad Religion". Interview with Joshua Chaplinsky, chuckpalahniuk.net. October 18, 2010.

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• The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

  Matthieu Ricard

  Goal, Confusion, Meditation

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion.

  Mary Rowlandson

  Rain, Wine, Suffering

  Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.105, Diderot Publishing

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• All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

  George Whitefield

  Heaven, Temptation, Earth

  George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.758

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• God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly

  Joseph Caryl

  Arrows, Grace, Special

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

  Jo Coudert

  Heart, Serious, Warm

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• As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.

  Daniel Cawdry

  Musician, Fruition, Trials

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• Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.

  Susanna Rowson

  Rose, Tears, Youth

  Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

  Plutarch

  Running, Grief, Eye

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• But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
  Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
  In the affliction of these terrible dreams
  That shake us nightly.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Fear, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominantly dietary. Although several factors play into the genesis and progression of brain disorders, to a large extent numerous neurological afflictions often reflect the mistake of consuming too many carbs and too few healthy fats.

  David Perlmutter

  Mistake, Play, Healthy

  David Perlmutter (2014). “Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mother, Children, Civilization

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.113, Counterpoint Press

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

  Thomas Watson

  Grace

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

  Thomas Watson

  Thanksgiving, Religious, Heart

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.18, Ravenio Books

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

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, What If, Rust

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.18, Ravenio Books

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• 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.

  John Adams

  Blessing, Government, Vices

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.418

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• 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.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Pain, Hands

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous”, p.525

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