Affliction Quotes - Page 19

• The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Loss, Grace

  John Wesley (1855). “A plain account of Christian perfection ... Eighteenth edition”, p.91

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• Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Spring, Wine, Oil

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• Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Wings, Grace

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• A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

  Andy Murray

  Christian, Father, Blessing

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• It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• True healing must come first at the Soul level... prayer aligns our souls with God... By aligning ourselves with God - this highest possible state of unconditional love, joy, and wholeness - we can overcome anything, be healed of all afflictions.

  Rosemary Ellen Guiley

  Prayer, Healing, Unconditional Love

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• It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

  Heath L'Estrange

  Wisdom, Loss, Comfort

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• Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

  Thomas Watson

  Adversity, May, Puritan

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• Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

  Thomas Watson

  Adversity, Wings, Sorrow

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• There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

  Thomas Watson

  Adversity, Sea, Evil

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Divinity”, Lulu.com

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• Affliction is a good man's shining time.

  Edward Young

  Men, Hard Times, Tough Times

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• The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

  Katsuki Sekida

  Evil, Evil Thoughts, Remedy

  Katsuki Sekida, Marc Allen (2013). “A Guide to Zen: Lessons from a Modern Master”, p.17, New World Library

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• Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Promise, Tears, Atheism

  "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part I, Book VI, Chapter V. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 202, 1802.

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• The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Father, Light

  Brother Lawrence (of the Resurrection), Joseph de Beaufort (1874). “Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine (Brother Lawrence).”, p.62, New York ; Chicago ; Toronto : F.H. Revell

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• The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Inspiration, Important

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.68, Hachette UK

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

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Disappointment, Grace

  John Bunyan (1873). “The Complete Works”, p.79

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• His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was beginning to think it was an affliction of his. Did he go around wanting to choke the life out of everyone or was she special in that regard? “I’m afraid ’tis an urge that is entirely original to you,” the laird barked. She clamped her mouth shut and closed her eyes. Mother Serenity had vowed one day Mairin would regret her propensity to blurt out her least little thought. Today just might be that day.

  Maya Banks

  Mother, Regret, Eye

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• CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Death Of A Friend, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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• It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek to undermine their independence in every way possible. With seductive 'entitlements' like guaranteed retirement, health care, nutrition, education, and jobs, liberals attempt to lure the middle class into dependence on the state. But when it comes to those who are truly incompetent, those whose mental afflictions render them unable to manage their lives at all, liberals are suddenly transformed into absolutists for personal autonomy.

  Mona Charen

  Retirement, Jobs, Caring

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Grace, Inward, Flesh

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• Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.

  Brother Lawrence

  Blessing, Hands, Giving

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Library, Ministers

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• Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

  David Platt

  Pain, Light, Church

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• 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.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Storm, Comfort, Faces

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