Quotes About Affliction

that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.

You do not find one godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it; though for a while he was shaken, yet at last he was better for an affliction. But a great many godly men, you find, have been worse for their prosperity.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

If any adversity coming across our path were not beneficial, God would not allow it or send it: "He does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone" (Lamentations 3:33, NIV). God does not delight in our suffering. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees" (Psalm 119:71).

As Lamentations 3:33 states, "For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.

As usual in times of war, fear, and affliction, the individual human being had ceased to exist; only one thing counted: a valid passport.

The tyranny of words is only slightly less absolute than that of men; but whereas elections, revolutions, or just the dreary passage of time can do away with human tyranny, patient analysis and redefinition are required to remedy the linguistic affliction.

The hungry can't eat your tears. The poor can't spend them. They're no comfort to the afflicted and they don't bring the wicked to justice. Everything useful that can be done in the world can be done in joy.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

And the light, I must apologise for the lack of light... a hereditary affliction of the eyes…

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. – Psalm 119:92 NIV

My cholera's acting up again.

She gazed into space, afflicted by sudden deafness, a common disorder in felines.

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.

May the Lord comfort the afflicted souls.

Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own inward resources to rely on) to some great trial, some pain, some persecution; he had even longed for affliction.

That was the problem with human failings – they were often more visible to others than to those whom they afflicted.

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.