“When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“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
“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
“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”
Cardinal Richelieu
“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.”
Bible
“It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.”
William Blake