Quotes About Affliction

There is only one way to heal your affliction. Go down to the city and bring me back a mustard seed from any house in which there has never been a death.

Then, lastly, there is another reason why the good are afflicted with temporal calamities—the reason which Job's case exemplifies: that the human spirit may be proved, and that it may be manifested with what fortitude of pious trust, and with how unmercenary a love, it cleaves to God.

Above all, the divine love is salvific: It seeks the lost, suffers with the afflicted, and redeems the fallen.

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.

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.

1859. Some of the causes of insanity were listed as: ill health, loss of property, excessive use of tobacco, dissipation, domestic affliction, epilepsy, masterbation, home-sickness, injury of the head. The largest category was unknown.

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

Love is like pancreatitis; it starts off slow, then builds in intensity until you become consumed and develop violent cramps.

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.

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

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

I mentioned my observation that the world seems to be filling up with imbeciles. They explained to me that this is simply an affliction of age.

I mentioned my observation that the world seems to be filling up with imbeciles. They explained to me that this is simply an affliction of age. The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.

Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die and suffer for me at the time and in the circumstances foretold. By his grace I peaceably await death, in the hope of being eternally united to him, and meanwhile I live joyfully, whether in the blessings which he is pleased to bestow on me or in the affliction he sends me for my own good and taught me how to endure by his example.

23] Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

In years of affliction, in times Of unthinkable daily life, She was thrown to him from the bottom By the wave of destiny.

I see the eyes but not the tears This is my affliction.

As far apart from you as one eye from the other, out of this affliction I've taken on will be born the gaze that deserves you at last. — Julio Cortazar, "If I'm To Live," Save Twilight: Selected Poems . (City Lights Publishers; 2nd Printing edition January 1, 2001) Originally published October 12th 1980.

You would not think someone so afflicted would or could be cheerful, not prone to melancholy or the miseries. Early on she acquired ways of dealing with her life, with life in general. And as she grew older it became evident that she feared almost nothing — perhaps only horses and something she couldn't quite name, a strange presence of danger not quite or not really a part of the world.

A pox of unique human diseases--many of which cause an uncomfortable swelling--come upon you!

as Sylvester says, a man who has never been afflicted with a neurosis does not know the meaning of suffering.