Affliction Quotes

Affliction Quote of the day

The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

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.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

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

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

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

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it

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.

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

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

It is good for me that I have been afflicted.

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.