Affliction Quotes

In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

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.

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

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

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.

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

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

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.

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.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

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

A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.

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 nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last, he was better for an affliction. But, a great many Godly men have been worse for their prosperity.

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

It is good for me that I have been afflicted.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more firmly, the finished righteousness of Christ. And what is the school in which he learns his nothingness, his poverty, his utter destitution? The school of deep and sanctified affliction. In no other school is it learned, and under no other teacher but God. Here his high thoughts are brought low, and the Lord alone is exalted.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

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

The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

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.

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.