Affliction Quotes - Page 12

• It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Hands, Trying

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• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Religious, Courage

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• 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.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Life, Acceptance, Comfort

  The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

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• And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.

  Daniel Defoe

  Blessing, Add, Hints

  Daniel Defoe (1836). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.57

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• …I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans

  Lawrence Durrell

  Mean, Islands, Sea

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• Affliction is a mother,
  Whose painful throes yield many sons,
  Each fairer than the other.

  Henry Vaughan

  Mother, Son, Yield

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis LYTE (1847). “Silex scintillans, 1650. A ... facsimile”, p.31

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• The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.

  Nhat Hanh

  Ignorance, Order, Perception

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

  George Sand

  Heart, Life Is, Succession

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.316, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with God, the mother and daughter of tears, a bridge for crossing temptations, a wall of protection from afflictions, a crushing of conflicts, boundless activity, the spring of virtues, the source of spiritual gifts, invisible progress, food of the soul, the enlightening of the mind, an axe for despair, a demonstration of hope, release from sorrow, the wealth of monks.

  Ignatius Bryanchaninov

  Crush, Daughter, Mother

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• Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

  Jose Marti

  Spiritual, Real, Men

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• No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

  George Q. Cannon

  Desert, Trials, Matter

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• A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, People, Trying

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• If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.

  Khaled Hosseini

  School, Kids, Son

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.11, A&C Black

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• If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Reading, People

  Penelope Lively (2011). “How It All Began”, p.164, Penguin UK

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• Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are
  sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.

  T. B. Joshua

  Spiritual, May, Benefits

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• We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Fire, Our Love, Cures

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

  Simone Weil

  Self, Iron, Hatred

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.40, Routledge

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• But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).

  Thomas Pynchon

  Exotic, Shapes, Venture

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• Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Vanity, May

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• To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hands, June, Shining

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.761, Harvard University Press

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• Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Father, Humanity

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• This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

  Patricia McCormick

  Life, Believe, Stubborn

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• Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Philosophical, Unique

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.

  Joseph Hall

  Hurt, Godly, Men

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• Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Christian, Pain, Grief

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