Quotes about affliction
affliction bears guilty-conscience
I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience. Charles Spurgeon
affliction aware good hate immigrant led nostalgia particular politics
Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.
affliction bad doubly terrible three twice
It's bad enough when you have got such a terrible affliction once. It's doubly bad when it comes around twice and three times is too bad to think about.
affliction ordinary prepares sort
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. C. S. Lewis
affliction darkness enrich enriches night plow refresh
Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plow enriches the field; to Henry Ward Beecher
affliction comforter
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.
affliction ages bright hath method
Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
affliction believer caliphs
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
affliction cups salvation
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? Alexander MacLaren
affliction redemption sin
Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction. Daniel Defoe
affliction firsts would-be
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change. Alfred Adler
affliction bears cry
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. William Shakespeare
affliction hats results
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
affliction hath man rod seen
I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
affliction complaining pleasure
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures. Fanny Burney
affliction particular i-can
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. Jessye Norman
affliction bowels days rested
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
affliction return seek till
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
affliction defect either genius given gods known man physical
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him Max Beerbohm
affliction aircraft caused drop durable estimates goods namely number possibly result revised weeks
We'd like to see this number strengthen, however, estimates have been revised lower, which is possibly a result of the same affliction that caused the drop in durable goods two weeks ago, namely a slowdown in aircraft orders.
affliction bears should
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it. Milan Kundera
affliction prosperity virtue
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. Joseph Addison
affliction slavery bread
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery. Jonathan Sacks
affliction although born cometh doth fly forth man neither sparks spring trouble unto
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; / Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
affliction alleviate remove
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. Laurence Sterne
affliction silver tested
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. John Bevere
affliction may sin
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. John Bunyan
affliction cures novel
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. Joyce Carol Oates
affliction trouble reason
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them. Billy Graham
affliction produces
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. John Adams
affliction stamps impression
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp. Pierre Bayle
affliction easy easy-things
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted. William Blake
affliction prosperity made
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse. William Gurnall