(145 quotes found)
“Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.”
David Mallet
“Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.”
Miguel de Unamuno
“Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire”
Antoine Lavoisier
“As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."”
Ambrose Bierce
“And if Allah should afflict you with harm, then there is none to remove it but He; and if He intends good to you there is none to repel His grace; He brings it to whom He pleases of His servants; and He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.”
quran
“Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.”
Bible
“And those who, when great wrong afflicts them, defend themselves.”
“And whatever affliction befalls you, it is on account of what your hands have wrought, and (yet) He pardons most (of your faults).”
“And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; / Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.”
