Quotes About Afflict

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

For me, religion comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.

Religion has been defined as designed to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the parables of Jesus as doing the afflicting. Therefore, if we hear a parable and think, 'I really like that' or, worse, fail to take any challenge, we are not listening well enough.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

I intend to study love as well as medicine, for it is one of the most mysterious and remarkable diseases that afflict mankind, and the best way to understand it is to have it. I may catch it someday, and then I should like to know how to treat and cure it. - Mac (Rose In Bloom)

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

It was one of those pure feelings that do not interfere with life, that are cultivated because they are rare, and whose loss would afflict more than their passion rejoices.

The business of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable was one of the aphorisms his boss liked to quote.

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Lo, what a powerful thing is emotion! Men may die of imagination, so profoundly can a notion afflict the mind.

The key to solving most of the people problems that afflict organizations is in discovering how we can solve this central workplace self-betrayal.

I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.

For me, what's the old expression, 'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,' that's really what religion is good at when it is done right. And the truth is, so is television.

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

You can't comfort the afflicted," the note read, "without afflicting the comfortable.