Quotes of: Affliction Keyword

In all Diseases strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.

Nicholas Culpeper

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

Caitlin Moran

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Aeschylus

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

Dwight L. Moody

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Elizabeth I

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Blaise Pascal

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

David Mallet

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

Wess Stafford

As I took up life as a minister, I tried to understand why so many people resisted and rejected God, I soon realized that perhaps that main reason was affliction and suffering. ...But at the same time, I learned that just as many people find God thro...

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

A godly man in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in t...

Jeremiah Burroughs

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

Patrick J. Kennedy

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Marianne Moore

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Harold S. Geneen

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

Frank B. Kellogg

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Joseph Addison

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

James A. Baldwin

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

Janet Street-Porter

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

John Donne

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

Abu Bakr