Affliction Quotes
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Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. (Quote by - Bible)
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress. (Quote by - Nash)
Toil shall not afflict them in it, nor shall they be ever ejected from it. (Quote by - Quran)
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. (Quote by - Bible)
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. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
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. (Quote by - Pascal)
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. (Quote by - Bible)
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. (Quote by - David Mallet)
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. (Quote by - Samuel Rutherford)
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else. (Quote by - Al-Ghazali)
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. (Quote by - Bible)
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, / And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God. (Quote by - Bible)
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: / Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. (Quote by - Bible)
Some diseases that afflict humans today, such as malaria, gout and cancer, are truly ancient and were handed down to us from our distant ancestors. By studying the distribution of these diseases in other living and fossil organisms, we can gain insights into the nature of these diseases. (Quote by - Christopher Beard)
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. (Quote by - Bible)
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted. (Quote by - William Blake)
And those who, when great wrong afflicts them, defend themselves. (Quote by - Quran)
And if you take your turn, then retaliate with the like of that with which you were afflicted; but if you are patient, it will certainly be best for those who are patient. (Quote by - quran)
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. (Quote by - Bible)
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. (Quote by - Bible)
And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. (Quote by - Bible)
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. (Quote by - Thomas Brooks)
I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. (Quote by - Bible)
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. (Quote by - Bible)
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. (Quote by - Bible)
And if Allah touch you with affliction, there is none to take it off but He; and if He visit you with good, then He has power over all things. (Quote by - quran)
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. (Quote by - John Donne)
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. (Quote by - Bible)
On the day when there shall be a severe affliction, and they shall be called upon to make obeisance, but they shall not be able, / Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe. (Quote by - quran)
The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. (Quote by - Charles H. Spurgeon)
I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. (Quote by - Bible)
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. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. (Quote by - Bible)
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. (Quote by - Mathew Henry)
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? / For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. (Quote by - Bible)
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. (Quote by - John Milton)
Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. (Quote by - Bible)
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. (Quote by - Bible)
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction (Quote by - Demetrius Phalerens)
When a man meets a woman, he will do everything to win in the woman's heart. But when it becomes to a relationship, some men cannot commit themselves because they are scared; on the other hand some women too. Before committing in a serious relationship, think first before you commit. A relationship is not a play where you can cheat your special someone or not…. (Quote by - Needl Heart Uchia)
And Isaid,My strengthand my hope isperished fromthe L: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. (Quote by -Bible)
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. (Quote by - Ovid)
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. (Quote by - Bible)
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. (Quote by - Bible)
They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever. (Quote by - Lucinda Franks)
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; / Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: / Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help. (Quote by - Bible)
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
Though all Afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. Affliction. (Quote by - John Tillotson)
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. (Quote by - Bible)
And they thought that there would be no affliction, so they became blind and deaf; then Allah turned to them mercifully, but many of them became blind and deaf; and Allah is well seeing what they do. (Quote by - quran)
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: / And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. (Quote by - Bible)
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. (Quote by - Bible)
And whatever affliction befalls you, it is on account of what your hands have wrought, and (yet) He pardons most of your faults. (Quote by - quran)
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. (Quote by - Bible)
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, 'I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction'. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head. (Quote by - Bible)
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. (Quote by - Bible)
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. (Quote by - Bible)
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour, Serves but to brighten our future days! (Quote by - John Brown 1)
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. (Quote by - Bible)
And when affliction touches a man, he calls on Us, whether lying on his side or sitting or standing; but when We remove his affliction from him, he passes on as though he had never called on Us on account of an affliction that touched him; thus that which they do is made fair-seeming to the extravagant. (Quote by - quran)
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, - Some days must be dark and dreary. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? / Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? / Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. (Quote by - Bible)
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. (Quote by - Bible)
Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. (Quote by - Bible)
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. (Quote by - Bible)
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. (Quote by - Bible)
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. (Quote by - Bible)
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. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
It's bad enough when you have got such a terrible affliction once. It's doubly bad when it comes around twice and three times is too bad to think about. (Quote by - Geoff Lawson)
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. (Quote by - Bible)
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. (Quote by - Bible)
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. (Quote by - Bible)
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. (Quote by - Bible)
For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. (Quote by - Bible)
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. (Quote by - Bible)
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. (Quote by - James Arthur Baldwin)
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. (Quote by - Bible)
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. (Quote by - Bible)
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves. (Quote by - Robert Southey)
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
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. (Quote by - Miguel de Unamuno)
And certainly We sent (apostles) to nations before you then We seized them with distress and affliction in order that they might humble themselves. (Quote by - quran)
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. (Quote by - Jean De La Bruyere)
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. (Quote by - Francis Bacon Sr.)
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; / Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. (Quote by - Bible)
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. (Quote by - Beerbohm)
This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. (Quote by - Bible)
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. (Quote by - Cardinal Richelieu)
The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu. (Quote by - David L. Katz)
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald me like molten lead. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day. (Quote by - Bible)
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. (Quote by - Christopher Love)
When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. (Quote by - Rosalind Russell)
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. (Quote by - Bible)
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.". (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: / And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. (Quote by - Bible)
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
To those whose hearts tremble when Allah is mentioned, and those who are patient under that which afflicts them, and those who keep up prayer, and spend (benevolently) out of what We have given them. (Quote by - quran)
The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. (Quote by - Bible)
We have 11 grandchildren and two of them have been afflicted with lazy eye. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost. (Quote by - Bible)
Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. (Quote by - Bible)
The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. (Quote by - Charles Hadden Spurgeon)
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. (Quote by - Claudian)
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. (Quote by - Bible)
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. (Quote by - Bible)
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. (Quote by - Antoine Lavoisier)
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. (Quote by - Bible)
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. (Quote by - Hannah More)
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go. (Quote by - John Powell)
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. (Quote by - Edward Young)
I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. (Quote by - Bible)
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. (Quote by - quran)
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; / And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (Quote by - Bible)
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. (Quote by - Jessye Norman)
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (Quote by - Bible)
He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth. (Quote by - Bible)
To bear other people's Afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. Affliction. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
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.". (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. (Quote by - Dwight L. Moody)
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. (Quote by - Francis Atterbury)
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. (Quote by - Bible)
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. (Quote by - Bible)
If the Fed were to pause, what does it actually do for anybody . . in the afflicted Gulf region? At this point they're more concerned with basic food and shelter and not really comparison-shopping for mortgages. (Quote by - Barry Ritholtz)
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief. (Quote by - Buddha)
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or affliction he has never experienced. (Quote by - Juan de Mairena)
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. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plow enriches the field; to. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; / While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (Quote by - Bible)
A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin. (Quote by - Bible)
