“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
“Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”
Finley Peter Dunne
“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
“It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.”
William Blake
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
