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Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.
The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.
All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.
...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.
One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.
With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
"My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die."
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.
No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.
I have known 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.
Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.
There will be no Christian but what will have a Gethsemane, but every praying Christian will find that there is no Gethsemane without its angel!
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.