Affliction Quotes

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver;

I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober;

not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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

the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underused of a good mind.

That is why in particular it is a female affliction.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

We have met with so overwhelming an affliction in the death of our beloved Willie, a being too precious for this earth. All that human skill could do, was done for our sainted boy. I fully believe the severe illness [scarlet fever], he passed through, now, almost two years since, was but a warning to us, that one so pure, was not to remain long here and at the same time, he was lent us a little longer to try us and wean us from a world whose chains were fastening around us; and when the blow came it found us so unprepared to meet it.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought;

so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin.

Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

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.

It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction

Whenever any affliction assails me, I have the keys of my prison in mine own hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so: and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgments upon them.

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.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have.

Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.