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.

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

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

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.

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.

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.

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.