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

    Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”
  • There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

    Adversity   Sea   Evil  
    Thomas Watson “A Body of Divinity”, Lulu.com
  • Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.

    Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2006). “Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks”, p.103, Storey Publishing
  • The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

    Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.270
  • God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.

    Stephen Charnock, William Symington (1847). “The Choice Works of the Rev. Stephen Charnock, B.D.: With His Life and Character”, p.24
  • Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.

  • Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.

    Spring   Men   Secret  
  • The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

    Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.8, Vintage
  • 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 (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.112, University of Georgia Press
  • Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

    Faith   Religious   Pain  
  • When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

    Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations”, p.91
  • Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

    Men   Evil   Affliction  
    Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.58, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
  • I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

  • Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That’s how we overcome, most of the time. It’s not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.

  • You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.

  • God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

  • Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

  • When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

  • Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

    John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.583
  • Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

    Art   Affliction   Juliet  
    'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 1
  • The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

    The Future of an Illusion Ch. 8
  • The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

  • There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

    J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.73, Editora Dracaena
  • God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.

    William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.239
  • Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and undisturbedly in the face of afflictions from one's neighbor. Meekness is a cliff rising from the sea of irritability, against which all the that waves that strive against it break, but which is itself never broken.

  • Hazel Grace,” he said. “Hi,” I said. “How are you?” “Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction.” (He said “in re.” He really did. That boy.)

    Boys   Waiting   Grace  
  • In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination. A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.

    Air   Cells   Oxygen  
    "Father and Son".
  • There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet.

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

    Jobs   Affliction   Ghost  
    'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'
  • Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified

    Religious   Jesus   Real  
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