Affliction Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.