Top 25 Affliction Quotes of 168 - Page 3

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

Melissa McCarthy

Stars, Males, Affliction

"Melissa McCarthy's Emotional Interview: Finding Love, Coping with Critics and Becoming a Star – Her Way". people.com. June 25, 2014.

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

Lydia Lunch

Insanity, Needs, Affliction

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

Gold, Noble, Affliction

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

Thomas Watson

Grace, Affliction

Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

Sylvia Boorstein

Compassion, Mind, Affliction

Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.13, Ballantine Books

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Robert Burns

Brother, Son, Affliction

Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.54

The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

Oswald Chambers

Men, Agony, Affliction

Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.14, Discovery House

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

Religious, Darkness, Affliction

John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.583

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

John Angell James

Grace, World, Affliction

John Angell James (1841). “The widow directed to the widow's God”, p.117

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

J. C. Ryle

School, Affliction, Lessons

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.73, Editora Dracaena

Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

Eckhart Tolle

Thinking, Suffering, Affliction

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

Charles Spurgeon

Doe, Affliction

Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.

William Shakespeare

Heart, Together, Affliction

'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [586]

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, Bears, Should

"Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

Matthew Henry

Spiritual, Affliction, Promotion

Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.136, Harper Collins

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.

John Tillotson

Gratitude, Evil, Affliction

John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.104