Words matter. These are the best Affliction Quotes from famous people such as Robert Burns, Robert Hall, Andrew Coyle Bradley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Donne, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal – every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open – this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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.
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father’s house.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
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.
I’ve stammered all my life, and it’s fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It’s made me make some decisions that I’m sure I wouldn’t have if I didn’t suffer with this affliction.
Toxic Shock Syndrome cost me my leg, but, years later, I have since dedicated myself to raising awareness about TSS prevention. I am comfortable in my new role as an advocate against an affliction that affects thousands.
With Tourette’s, there’s this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.
I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.
I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn’t need an inheritance – the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life – and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.
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.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can’t spell.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
