Top 100 Quotes About Affliction
#1. Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.
Laini Taylor
#2. Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.
Billy Graham
#3. Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
Hannah More
#4. I reread An Imperial Affliction until Mom woke up and rolled over toward me around six. She nuzzled her head against my shoulder, which felt uncomfortable and vaguely Augustinian.
John Green
#5. We need not get distracted by the seeming defeat or troubles of our daily lives ("what is seen"), because this affliction is actually being used by God to transform our character (2 Corinthians 3:18) so we can become the kind of citizens who will flourish in his future kingdom ("what is not seen").
J.P. Moreland
#6. A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
Plautus
#7. The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common plague of humanity. It is:
The fallacy of attributing to one cause what is due to many causes.
Alfred Korzybski
#8. Worldly ease is a great foe to faith; it loosens the joints of holy valour, and snaps the sinews of sacred courage. The balloon never rises until the cords are cut; affliction doth this sharp service for believing souls.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#9. How you deal with money reflects how you deal with power. Is it an affliction or a blessing? A game or a burden?
Anthony Robbins
#10. Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!
Thomas Watson
#11. Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.
Hubert Harrison
#12. Do you know it is a universal affliction of the incompetent to judge another's actions only through the prism of their own faults, never to comprehend that another can react in any way other than how they themselves would?
Tom Wolosz
#13. Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
Barbara Deming
#14. The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.
Charles Spurgeon
#15. At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors.
Neal A. Maxwell
#16. In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us ... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.
Martin Luther
#17. Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
Gautama Buddha
#18. Affliction comes to us all ... not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
Henry Ward Beecher
#19. AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
Ambrose Bierce
#20. I'm an insomniac - the affliction of champions.
Emma Chase
#21. Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
Walter Savage Landor
#22. Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid
#23. The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.
Wes Fesler
#24. In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into ...
Daniel Defoe
#25. My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.
Marion G. Romney
#26. The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith
John Calvin
#27. In the dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday's affliction and the hope of tomorrow's gifts.
Ariana Carruth
#28. Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice ... but the voice of eternity within a man it cannot drown. When by the aid of affliction all irrelevant voices are brought to silence, it can be heard, this voice within.
Mark Galli
#29. True believing Christians are sheep among wolves, sheep for the slaughter. They must be baptized in anxiety, distress, affliction, persecution, suffering, and death.
William Roscoe Estep
#31. The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the 'New Hampshire Gazette' appeared with a deep black border and all the typographical emblems of affliction, for was not Liberty dead?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#32. I'll put it this way, there was no C.P. Kennedy, there was no Dwight Dickham, we never went in the courtroom. That was the script I got. The affliction that the judge is suffering from was completely different.
Susan Downey
#33. 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.
Alfred Adler
#34. Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more of an affliction.
Claire Smith
#35. Christ warned His followers that to believe in Him would not make them popular, and that they should be prepared to face affliction for His sake.
Billy Graham
#36. It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.
Mark Lawrence
#37. 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.
Hosea Ballou
#38. I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
Clarice Lispector
#39. God can never be perfectly present to us here below on account of our flesh. But he can be almost perfectly absent from us in extreme affliction. This is the only possibility of perfection for us on earth. That is why the Cross is our only hope.
Simone Weil
#40. Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.
Sathya Sai Baba
#41. By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, and makes us long for heaven.
J.C. Ryle
#42. If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate
sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.
Khaled Hosseini
#44. It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.
Charles Spurgeon
#45. Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.
Simone Weil
#46. hurt, Hannah prayed to the Lord and wept with many tears. 11 Making a vow, she pleaded, "Lord of Hosts, if You will take notice of Your servant's affliction, remember and not forget me, and give Your servant a son, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.
Anonymous
#47. Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state of mind, right, some spiritual affliction, like the Blues.
Tracy Letts
#48. Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
Charles Spurgeon
#49. From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
A. E. Hotchner
#50. If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowing what she might not have become. But Dixon was too loyal to desert her in her affliction and downfall (alias her married life).
Elizabeth Gaskell
#51. 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.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#52. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.
Aubrey Thomas De Vere
#53. I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
Kenneth Oppel
#54. Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.
Norman Mailer
#55. In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
John Bunyan
#57. Welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, Sit thee down, sorrow!
William Shakespeare
#58. Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.
Thomas Watson
#59. Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
James Baldwin
#60. An old campaigner, he did not speak until we were on the sidewalk. "What's up?" "Jem's got the look-arounds," an affliction Calpurnia said all boys caught at his age.
Harper Lee
#61. When the Lord relieves you of that un wanted affliction. Then it is time to serve Him without restriction.
Nathan Jones
#62. In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
Boethius
#63. If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.
Jean De La Bruyere
#64. Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses. 18 n Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
Anonymous
#65. To see her is a picture-
To hear her is a tune-
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June-
To know her not-Affliction-
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.
Emily Dickinson
#66. It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
John Forbes Nash
#67. Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.
Milan Kundera
#68. The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.
Pierre Bayle
#69. If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.
Simone Weil
#70. Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.
Charles Spurgeon
#71. There is also a CAN OF PEANUTS on the desk. Ha ha, oh DAD. You won't be falling for THAT one again any time soon.
A severe peanut allergy is a terrible affliction to cope with.
Andrew Hussie
#72. Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#73. I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
William Banting
#74. Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
Charles Spurgeon
#75. As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.
Charles Spurgeon
#76. Affliction is a mother,
Whose painful throes yield many sons,
Each fairer than the other.
Henry Vaughan
#77. Affliction does not come by chance - the weight of every stroke of the rod - is accurately measured.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#78. Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
Muriel Spark
#79. For my part, whether sailing in cruiser or dinghy, I shall remain myself. My sails are not puffed out with the north wind in my favour, nor am I beating into the southern gales of affliction.
Horace
#80. Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
Christopher Love
#81. He was a likable man: sweet-tempered, ready-witted, frank, without grins of suppressed bitterness or other conversational flavors which make half of us an affliction to our friends.
George Eliot
#82. Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
William Shakespeare
#83. Genuine faith comes forth from the iron smelter of affliction.
Robin Bertram
#84. In typology, this means that after all of the experiences of affliction, the church life will be expanded and become spacious. Then we shall have a richer seed and a wider, broader church life. The seed within us will be richer, and the land without us will be broader.
Witness Lee
#85. One who seeks to control others is one who suffers from the affliction of fear.
T.F. Hodge
#86. DEVIL Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. WM-ST-62
Kahlil Gibran
#87. Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
Ben Jonson
#88. There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
Simone Weil
#89. It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.
Henry MacKenzie
#90. Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
Charles Spurgeon
#91. Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.
Susanna Rowson
#92. No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Fay Weldon
#93. Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel De Unamuno
#94. I did not understand how quickly one could fall in love, and I regarded almost as an affliction that one would eventually recover from. However, I now recognize that it is a force that reaches into every fiber of your body, and that it is something not to be resisted, but embraced.
Mary Lydon Simonsen
#95. Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.
William Shakespeare
#96. The people come to Jesus, not because they recognized his dignity and function but because it is rumored that a miracle worker has come in their midst. Jesus had come to preach repentance and the nearness of the kingdom but the people think only of relief from pain and affliction.
William L. Lane
#97. Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
C.S. Lewis
#98. Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
Frederick William Robertson
#100. Pain demands to be felt, he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.
John Green
