Affliction Quotes - Page 4

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

  Joseph Addison

  Destiny, Prosperity, Virtue

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• 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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• 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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• Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gold, Noble, Clay

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

  Abu Bakr

  Believer, Caliphs, True Believer

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

  Bodhidharma

  Anger, Passion, Ignorant Masses

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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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• 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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• 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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• Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Love Yourself, Acceptance, Loving Yourself

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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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