Affliction Quotes - Page 17

• Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Body, Doe

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1964). “Sermons on the Book of Revelation”

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• The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Adversity, Tree

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• In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

  Richard Cecil

  Sorrow, Bitterness, Trouble

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• By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

  John Newton

  Prayer, Ease, Formal

  John Newton (1869). “Letters: Including Several Never Before Published”, p.81

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• God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Children, Eye, Order

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 8), 1895.

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• The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mother, Children, Civilization

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.113, Counterpoint Press

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• I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments.

  Edward Norton

  Insecure, Thinking, Weakness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spring, Men, Secret

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• We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Religious, Educational, Eye

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• Many of the most important principles of intelligence cannot by taught at universities, from books, or through other temporal learning processes. Often these great principles are learned from afflictions, tribulations, and other mortal experiences. All that we learn in this manner will benefit us not only in this life but also in the next, for 'whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection'.

  Monte J. Brough

  Book, Adversity, Important

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• It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Suffering, Doubt

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.107, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

  Richard Steele

  Atheist, Light, People

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• The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like the Apostle Paul-is available for every affliction in mortality.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Adversity, Healing

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• Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Encouragement, Religious, Rain

  Edith Schaeffer (1993). “Affliction”, p.27, Baker Books

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• Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Shadow, Earth, Length

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Walter Lever (2004). “Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam”, p.91, Terrace Books

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• Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Education, Remedy

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.295

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• I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't feel diseased by it. I just think that I enjoy life and life has many offerings. I feel lucky to be able to have a forum to share a lot of these ideas.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Offering, Ideas

  "Greg Graffin of Bad Religion". Interview with Joshua Chaplinsky, chuckpalahniuk.net. October 18, 2010.

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• The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

  Matthieu Ricard

  Goal, Confusion, Meditation

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion.

  Mary Rowlandson

  Rain, Wine, Suffering

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

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• All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

  George Whitefield

  Heaven, Temptation, Earth

  George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.758

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• God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly

  Joseph Caryl

  Arrows, Grace, Special

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• Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

  Jo Coudert

  Heart, Serious, Warm

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• As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.

  Daniel Cawdry

  Musician, Fruition, Trials

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• Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.

  Susanna Rowson

  Rose, Tears, Youth

  Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

  Plutarch

  Running, Grief, Eye

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