Quotes About Affliction

Thus over and above the fact that we sin gravely against God, we also afflict ourselves; we take a stand against ourselves and fight until a brother comes up to console and buoy us up with the Word and say: "Why are you insane? Why are you imagining things in your dreams? You are mistaken. God is not angry with you; He has taken away your sin, etc." For a heart that tortures itself needs such a remedy and the comfort of a brother.

Therefore when we are afflicted and disciplined, our heart must be aroused against the feeling of evil, and we must say (cf. Ps. 118:17): "I shall not die, but I shall live, however different it may appear. Although I may, indeed, be compelled to despair of myself, I shall nevertheless hope in Him who made all things out of nothing and can restore me intact after being reduced to nothing, to my very great benefit and that of others.

Love is a grave mental disease.

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

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

But love's a malady without a cure.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The portion of some is to have their Affliction by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the Cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion.

At its worst you find yourself wishing, desperately, for any other affliction, any physical pain, because the mind is infinite, and its torments – when they happen – can be equally infinite.

The most quieting considerations under affliction are those that are fetched from the word of God.

When parents are grieved by their children's wickedness they should take occasion thence to lament that corruption of nature which was derived from them, and which is the root of bitterness. But here we have that which was a relief to our first parents in their affliction.

If love was a disease, I'd been cured.

Men are accustomed to making objective assessments of devastating situations, as long as they are not immersed in them. Rare is he who maintains objectivity in the midst of personal affliction.

The normal Christian life is one of problems, but always remember that every problem has passed through the hand of a loving Father and carries with it, before it ever arrives, an express, intrinsic purpose. Those in the midst of affliction usually find the purpose hidden, but the experienced sufferer knows it will prove to be glorious. Problems are God's main tool for bringing us to the end of our own resources and into the deep experience of all His riches.

Everything hurts.

According to one of these terrible stories, the source of Daubmannus' erstwhile youthful cheerfulness and spirit, despite his affliction, was the fact that, hunched and bent as he was, he could reach down and suck at himself, and so he learned that the male seed tastes like a woman's milk. This was how he kept renewing himself.

For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.

Anguish over the decline of civilization is the affliction of a reactionary. The democrat cannot lament the disappearance of something of which he is ignorant.

Don't worry about it, Borage. I've always been inclined to think that the Apostle Paul was similarly afflicted. He speaks often of a bodily weakness, and men have been at pains to name it, attibuting to him everything from lameness to lung sickness. But I think the clue lies in his experience on the road to Damascus. Tell me, do you see a great light? Dr. Trudgett

I did not know what she suffered from, but I knew that her malady must have been horrible; I knew that from the way she used to embrace me.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

A KIND OF ILLNESS This ache in my chest is a relentless thing, worse than any fever. A fever is gone with a few of Mumtaz's white pills. But this illness has had me in its grip for a week now. This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me.

Since the affliction was so plainly psychosomatic, the worst thing she could do was to give it space for thought.