Affliction Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Jobs, Children, East

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• Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Heart

  George Washington, Thomas J. Fleming (1967). “Affectionately Yours, George Washington: A Self-portrait in Letters of Friendship”, New York : Norton

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• Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Iron, Negativity, Feelings

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• 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

  Caring, Vanity, Ideas

  Miguel de Unamuno (2015). “Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote”, p.22, Princeton University Press

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• Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

  Joseph Addison

  Destiny, Prosperity, Virtue

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• 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

  Christian, Passion, People

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

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• 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

  Grieving, Funeral, Bereavement

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.270

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• Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

  Francis Atterbury

  School, Virtue, Levity

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• 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

  Christian, Patience, Prayer

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• By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

  J. C. Ryle

  Long, Heaven, Grace

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".

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• Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

  Robert Burns

  Brother, Son, Bliss

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.54

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• 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

  Liberty, Crutches, Frightening

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• The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

  Abu Bakr

  Believer, Caliphs, True Believer

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• The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Soldier, Trials

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Gleanings Among The Sheaves”, p.11, SHELDON AND COMPANY

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• Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

  John Brown

  Clouds, Heaven, Trying

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  The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

  Francis Bacon

  Jobs, Ghost, Holy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'

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• 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

  Friendship, Men, Long

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• Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

  John Donne

  Men, Joy, Suffering

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.575

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• 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

  Reality, People, Community

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• Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.

  William Browne

  Clouds, Hours, Our Future

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

  William Shakespeare

  Bears, Cry, Enough

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.798

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• 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

  Determination, Anger, Thinking

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Dying, Would Be

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

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Juliet, Calamity

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 1

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• 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.

  John Tillotson

  Gratitude, Evil, Disease

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.104

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