Afflicted Quotes

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable,

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity;

the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable;

love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world ? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue our future lives will be less afflicted.

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit.

It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.