Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius.
Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must...
So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent all their years suffering disasters endure the ...
The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him th...
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Affliction is a good man's shining time.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.
Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.
A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
