Quotes of: Afflict Keyword

Van Houten: [On the book 'An Imperial Affliction'] Pain demands to be felt.

The Fault in Our Stars

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Margaret J. Wheatley

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

Robert Hall

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Samuel Rutherford

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.

Richard Cecil

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Francis Bacon

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Fay Weldon

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

George Washington

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

Martin Luther

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.

Conrad Black

It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul's endurance in faith and hope and love in of bodily afflictions that pleases Heaven.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

The Hour of the Star

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

Incriminating Evidence: The Collected Writings of Lydia Lunch

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions

Voice of Reason

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Phillips Brooks

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.

Simone Weil

Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.

Tom Paulin

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

Kenneth Oppel