Affliction Quotes - Page 16

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

Augustus William Hare

Wise, Spiritual, Heart

Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.

Dalai Lama

Compassion, Two, Mind

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I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

Nicholson Baker

Eye, People, Degrees

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Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

Samuel Rutherford

Thinking, Heaven, Skins

Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.120

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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

Ben Jonson

Prayer, Wicked Person, Praying

Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3176, Delphi Classics

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Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.

Rod Serling

Bullshit, Looks, Oscars

Source: www.rodserling.com

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Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take it easy and do not stir yourself, you will never make any progress. It has been said, "It is no disgrace to have many afflictions: I would worry if there never were any afflictions."

Zicheng Hong

Horse, Worry, Taoism

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Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

Billy Graham

Trouble, Reason, Ifs

Billy Graham (1987). “Facing Death and the Life After”, W Publishing Group

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Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

Neal Shusterman

Misunderstood, Three, Mental Illness

"Five questions for Neal Shusterman". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. March 9, 2015.

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The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Joy, Understanding, Suffering

Malcolm Muggeridge (1985). “Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

Laurence Sterne

Sympathy, Too Late, Consolation

Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.98

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We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

Rahul Gandhi

Levels, May, Corruption

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We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Limitation

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Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

Brian Clough

Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom.... How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year—; not only a season—: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Heart, Dark, Years

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As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Men, Suffering, Taught

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Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

Michael Pollan

Pride, Evil, Sin

Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

Thomas a Kempis

Teacher, Heart, Light

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Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.

William Shakespeare

Heart, Together, Bonds Of Love

'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [586]

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In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

Khalil Gibran

Effort, Society, Gold

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As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.

Robert Bork

Christian, Religious, Emotional

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What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Sorrow, Three, Vines

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Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

Jeri Smith-Ready

Ignorance, World

Adrian Phoenix, J. F. Lewis, Jeri Smith-Ready (2011). “Urban Fantasy Collection - Vampires: A Rush of Wings, Staked, Wicked Game”, p.1151, Simon and Schuster

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I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment's pain.

Thomas Jefferson

Pain, Blessed, Health

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Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

Jane Austen

Grief, Sorrow, World

Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.150, Infobase Publishing

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