“Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.”
Norman Mailer
“Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”
Finley Peter Dunne
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“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
“Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!”
William Shakespeare
“For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.”
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