Infirmity Quotes - Page 5

• Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

  Bonaventure

  Physicians, Needs, Feels

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• Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Pain, Adversity, Eye

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• There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

  John Adams

  Mind, Enemy, Storm

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• So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Jealous, Long, Unions

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons”, p.216

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• We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.

  William Law

  God, Reality, Keys

  William Law (1836). “Extracts from The spirit of prayer”, p.2

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• Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

  Francois Fenelon

  Thinking, Easily Offended

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• Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Views, Doubt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

  Thomas Browne

  Moving, Men, Levels

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• God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Leadership, Courage, Physicians

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• You have to be optimistic about golf. I mean it's physically demanding, particularly if you're on one leg. But it's psychologically demanding regardless of your physical infirmities. I mean, it's a tough sport. You've got to be disciplined and optimistic. And if you have a bad hole, you've got to be optimistic that you'll do well on the next hole.

  George W. Bush

  Sports, Optimistic, Mean

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

  John Wesley

  Allowance, Humans

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth in the dust, acknowledging that he suffers much less than his iniquities have deserved.

  John Newton

  Heart, Knowing, Dust

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• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

  Edward Young

  Age, Action, Life Is

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.489

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• If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.

  Ellen G. White

  Drinking, Mind, Suffering

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.968, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Satisfaction, Ifs

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• Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Spiritual, Fever, Chill

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• My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mother, Fall, Men

  "Les Confidences: Confidential Disclosures" by Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Eugène Plunkett, New York: D. Appleton & Co., (Book IV, Note VIII, p. 60), 1857.

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• We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'

  Andrew Solomon

  Motivational, Strong, Pain

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• Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Christian, Passion, Humility

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• Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of infirmity/ setback/ poverty - BE OPENED, in the name of Jesus Christ!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Names, Devil

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• Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Causes, Patient, Imagine

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• This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

  Clarence Day

  Mistake, World, Paid

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.69, 1st World Publishing

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• In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment.

  Marva Dawn

  Discipline, Care, Who We Are

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• Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fashion, Passion, People

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• The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Men, Lightning

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2811, Delphi Classics

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