Affliction Quotes - Page 15

• Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Together, Bonds Of Love

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [586]

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• In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

  Boethius

  Adversity, Men, Kind

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• It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Two, Mind

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• Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

  Ben Jonson

  Prayer, Wicked Person, Praying

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3176, Delphi Classics

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• Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

  Billy Graham

  Trouble, Reason, Ifs

  Billy Graham (1987). “Facing Death and the Life After”, W Publishing Group

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• Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sympathy, Too Late, Consolation

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.98

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• Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Thinking, Heaven, Skins

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.120

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• I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

  Nicholson Baker

  Eye, People, Degrees

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• Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Spiritual, Heart

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.

  Steve Almond

  Art, Real, Struggle

  "The New Yorker’s One Over 40" by Steve Almond, therumpus.net. June 14, 2010.

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• Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with God, the mother and daughter of tears, a bridge for crossing temptations, a wall of protection from afflictions, a crushing of conflicts, boundless activity, the spring of virtues, the source of spiritual gifts, invisible progress, food of the soul, the enlightening of the mind, an axe for despair, a demonstration of hope, release from sorrow, the wealth of monks.

  Ignatius Bryanchaninov

  Crush, Daughter, Mother

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• Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

  Henry Fielding

  Art, Giving, Mind

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• We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Sorrow, Fancy

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• To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spring, Joy, May

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

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• Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Children, Father

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• Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Blood, Make Happy

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.399

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• Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are
  sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.

  T. B. Joshua

  Spiritual, May, Benefits

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• If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.

  George Wigram

  Christian, Over You, May

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• Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the Lord, Who has found you worthy to suffer for Him, by struggling against the subtlety of the serpent, and to be wounded for Him at every hour; for had you not lived piously, and endeavored to become united to God, the enemy would not have attacked and tormented you.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Struggle, Fighting

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• Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Hats, Results, Combination

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2006). “Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks”, p.103, Storey Publishing

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• Affliction is a mother,
  Whose painful throes yield many sons,
  Each fairer than the other.

  Henry Vaughan

  Mother, Son, Yield

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis LYTE (1847). “Silex scintillans, 1650. A ... facsimile”, p.31

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• Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

  George Sand

  Heart, Life Is, Succession

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.316, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Religious, Care, Abandon

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• If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Reading, People

  Penelope Lively (2011). “How It All Began”, p.164, Penguin UK

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• Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Philosophical, Unique

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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