A collection of 359 inspiring quotes about affliction from various authors and sources.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
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.
When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
With silence only as their benediction,<br /> God's angels come<br /> Where in the shadow of a great affliction,<br /> The soul sits dumb!
The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of <br />affliction.<br /> - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,<br /> From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,<br /> And thou art wedded to calamity.
Henceforth, I'll bear<br /> Affliction till it do cry out itself,<br /> 'Enough, enough, and die.'
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;<br /> A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Besides, you know<br /> Prosperity's the very bond of love,<br /> Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together<br /> Affliction alters.
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a <br />real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we <br />impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and <br />comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is <br />an everlasting pleasure to us.
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.