affliction Quotes

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.

My father,Ђќ she admitted, 'was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured.Ђќ She paused. 'Though he did die.

Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.

By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

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

The Lord has said, 'I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.' (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

\'Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as \'in all points tempted like as we are,\' bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us.\'

After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts.

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

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.

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

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

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

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

Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

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

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

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.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

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

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

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