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• 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.".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gentleman, Body, Members

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.112, University of Georgia Press

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• It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Grief, Sorrow, Tears

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Bears, Moments

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• In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

  Al-Ghazali

  Suffering, Sorrow, Want

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

  William Blake

  Easy, Easy Things

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.249, Pearson Education

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• Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.

  Thomas Boston

  Christian, Men, Dust

  Thomas Boston (1848). “The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick”, p.165

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• "Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Grief, Dark

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.89

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• Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Father, Eye

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• The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Kings

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• The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fall, Autumn, Years

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.318

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

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Earth, Calamity

  "Aeneid". Poem by Virgil, Line 460, 29 - 19 BC.

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

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Rain, Shining

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.120

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• There is healing in the bitter cup.

  Robert Southey

  Healing, Cups, Bitter

  Robert Southey “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• It is good for me that I have been afflicted.

  Mary Rowlandson

  Has Beens

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

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• For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more.

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Religious, Jesus, Suffering

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

  Alexander MacLaren

  Cups, Salvation, Saviour

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

  Rosalind Russell

  Courage, Defeat, Happens

  Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”

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• Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

  David Mallet

  Patience, Gratitude, Sweet

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Christ, Share

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

  George MacDonald

  God, Christian, Wings

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.10063, e-artnow

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Adversity, Humanity, Tolerate

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

  Robert Southey

  Love, Men, Trials

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.320

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• 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

  Time, Ignorance, Knowledge

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.23.

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• If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

  James Burgh

  Visits You, Listening, Trouble

  James Burgh (1816). “Of knowledge”, p.126

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• The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Religious, Wine, Religion

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