(145 quotes found)
“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
“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
“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.”
Bible
“Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.”
George MacDonald
“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
“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”
Cardinal Richelieu
