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Afflictions clarify the soul. -- Francis Quarles
Afflictions are the steps to heaven. -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. -- George MacDonald
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. -- Thomas Brooks
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice. -- Isaac of Nineveh
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ -- C. S. Lewis
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. -- John Angell James
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. -- Thomas Brooks
Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. -- Francis Quarles
Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more. -- T. B. Joshua
Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. -- Brother Lawrence
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin. -- Thomas Watson
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more. -- John Bunyan
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
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned. -- George Downame
A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in spite of them. Afflictions be praised! -- Elaine A. Cannon
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white. -- John Flavel
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
Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us. -- Arthur W. Pink
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. -- Matthew Henry
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. -- Berthold Auerbach
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. -- William Arthur Ward
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. -- Matthew Henry
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. -- Francis Bacon
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. -- Robert Hall
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. -- Bodhidharma
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. -- George Washington
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
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. -- David Viscott
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! -- Jules Verne
Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows. -- Thomas Sydenham
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
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
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. -- Ibrahim Babangida
For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in a particular situation; a unique, one-off motive that is born out of someone's particular range of psychological afflictions. -- Sophie Hannah
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth. -- Ellen G. White
Your mercies are more than your afflictions. -- Jeremiah Burroughs
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt. -- Berthold Auerbach
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart. -- George Sand
We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse. -- William Gurnall
Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions. -- John Muir
There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy. -- John Calvin
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. -- Claudius Claudianus
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures. -- Fanny Burney
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. -- Benjamin Franklin
May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them. -- Scott Cairns
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. -- Jose Marti
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure. -- Winifred Holtby
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. -- Hosea Ballou
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them. -- Billy Graham
Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome. -- George Whitefield
Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. -- J. I. Packer
...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate. -- Lionel Shriver
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. -- Antonio Machado
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. -- Richard Sibbes
From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing. -- Charles Spurgeon
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. -- John Flavel
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. -- Sol LeWitt
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions. -- Sylvia Boorstein
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. -- Thomas Brooks
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions -- Bryant McGill
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions. -- Bryant H. McGill
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions. -- Charles Spurgeon
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. -- William Faulkner
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases. -- Rose of Lima
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments. -- Joseph Addison
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. -- John Owen
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak? -- Isabel Allende
One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them. -- John Wesley
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
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
One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world. -- Jeremiah Burroughs
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them. -- Yongey Mingyur
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them. -- Yongey Mingyur
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. -- David Viscott
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures. -- Saint John Chrysostom
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
The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer. -- Niall Ferguson
Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well. -- Watchman Nee
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
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go. -- John Powell
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face. -- Thomas S. Monson
I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes; I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand~? -- Richelle E. Goodrich
The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear. -- George Downame
I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes; I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand? -- Richelle E. Goodrich
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. -- Sigmund Freud
therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.(2 Thessalonians 1:4 NASB) -- Alexander
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. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography. -- Carol Anshaw
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos. -- Plato
The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception. -- Nhat Hanh
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty. -- Stephen Charnock
A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother. -- Ellen Glasgow
Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them. -- Joseph Addison
Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime. -- Flora Tristan

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