Affliction Quotes - Page 6

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good-to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.