13 Quotes on Affliction

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

  Author: H. Wells

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

  Author: Fay Weldon

• 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.

  Author: Simone Weil

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

  Author: Charles Spurgeon

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

  Author: Samuel Rutherford

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

  Author: Jean Rousseau

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

  Author: Jessye Norman

• 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.

  Author: Washington Irving

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

  Author: John Donne

• I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

  Author: William Banting

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

  Author: James Baldwin

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

  Author: Abu Bakr

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

  Author: Joseph Addison

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