Affliction Quotes - Page 20

It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and hardships in life. Yet even the Savior needed to "go forth, suffering pains and afflictions . . . of every kind" (Alma 7:11), the only difference being that Jesus, though tempted, did not sin (Hebrews 4:15; see also D&C 45:4). Even harder to comprehend, however, was how that precious Babe of Bethlehem, whose birth we celebrate each Christmas, would one day bear the weight not only of our sins but also all our infirmities.

Eric D. Huntsman

Baby, Jesus, Disappointment

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Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

Samuel Rutherford

Flower, Humility, Winter

Samuel Rutherford (1885). “Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished”

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From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.

Mark Dever

Spiritual, Suffering, Cain

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One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

Jeremiah Burroughs

Heaven, World, Bitterness

Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reality, Boredom, Needs

"Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by E. Payne, Vol. 1, p. 345, 1974.

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Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

Frederick William Robertson

Struggle, Evil, Waiting

Frederick William Robertson (1868). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.331

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God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).

Jerry Bridges

Children, Pain, Son

Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.169, NavPress

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Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

Saint John Chrysostom

Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

Joseph Addison

Opposites, Balance, Weight

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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

Plautus

Mind, Wells, Remedy

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Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

Joseph Addison

Mean, Men, Sorrow

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.656

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Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Heart, Wish, Church

Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.68, Booklassic

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The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

Martin Luther

Prayer, Believe, Exercise

Martin Luther (2002). “Commentary on Galatians, Luther”, p.158, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

Winifred Holtby

Regret, Cures, Remorse

Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this agony from us. He needs it for souls and for our soul... Alas, it does pain Him to give us sorrows to drink, but He knows this is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself and to become God's ourselves.

Therese of Lisieux

Religious, Pain, Mean

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Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

John Flavel

Soul, Suffering, May

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There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet.

Samuel Rutherford

Children, Wine, Feet

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Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

Simone Weil

Wisdom, Fun, Extremes

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.26, Psychology Press

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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

Bodhidharma

Dust, Shapes, Form

Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.109, Macmillan

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Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pain, Grief, Suffering

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And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good-to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.

L. Tom Perry

Sick, Riches, Relief

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O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

Samuel Rutherford

Jesus, Suffering, Purpose

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You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.

Samuel Rutherford

Father, Cutting, Perfect

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It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

Samuel Rutherford

Kindness, Pride, Self

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Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

Saadi

Bullying, Pain, Heart

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