Affliction Quotes - Page 5

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.

Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction.

Afflictions clarify the soul.