Affliction Quotes - Page 4

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

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.

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.

There will be no Christian but what will have a Gethsemane, but every praying Christian will find that there is no Gethsemane without its angel!

Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.

God measures out affliction to our need.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.