Affliction Quotes - Page 14

• My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.

  Marion G. Romney

  Adversity, Soul, Growth

  Marion G. Romney (1971). “Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney”

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• Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion, and as the means of procuring the necessaries and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency.

  Thomas Paine

  Children, Mean, Years

  Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.404

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• Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

  Jane Elliott

  Racism

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• Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Thinking, Giving

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.79, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Cures, Novel

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.28, Zondervan

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• There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

  John Calvin

  Joy, Ought

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on James”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

  Simone Weil

  Beauty, Heart, Two

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• A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Design, Good Man

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1835). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song”, p.82

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• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

  J. I. Packer

  Pain, Weakness, Use

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.

  Seamus Heaney

  People, Albatross, Might

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• You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and a consolation to the whole house, tomorrow you will be out of sorts, indolent, and a source of affliction to others. Then you will need their support, as you have supported them.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, House, Support

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

  Joseph Addison

  Adversity, Punishment, Judgment

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.4518, Delphi Classics

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• Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Adversity, Voice, Able

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• Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

  John Henry Newman

  Love, Self, Roots

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.39, Ignatius Press

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• ... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.

  Walter Russell

  Selfish, Grief, Loss

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• I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that, too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power... It is but too evident that the three ruling branches of [the Federal government] are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves all functions foreign and domestic.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Rights, Government

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• Those who have entered into the afflictions of Christ for His Church's sake know something of what they mean, for they have learned in a measure to pour out their souls unto death, in fellowship with Him.

  Jessie Penn-Lewis

  Mean, Soul, Church

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Comforter

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• The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eye, Tears, Needed

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• Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wise, Spiritual, Sorry

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• Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Pain, Failure, Adversity

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• New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Materials

  Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag

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• There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Suffering, Fellowship, Christ

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.242

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• I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Adversity, Winter, Water

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• Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

  Plato

  Confused, Inspiration, Mean

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