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• I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

  Max Beerbohm

  Spiritual, Men, Genius

  And Even Now (1920) "No. 2, The Pines"

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• Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gold, Noble, Clay

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• Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

  Matthew Henry

  Spiritual, Promotion

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.136, Harper Collins

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• Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Love Yourself, Acceptance, Loving Yourself

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• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

  Bodhidharma

  Anger, Passion, Ignorant Masses

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• Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Hope, Laughter

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• We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.345, A&C Black

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• Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Fire, Soul

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 7, l. 46

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• Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, Night, Laughing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Afflictions clarify the soul.

  Francis Quarles

  Soul

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• Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Hate, Confused

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• As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

  Edward Young

  Stars, Night, Men

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.283

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• It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Heart, Mind, Sentimental

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Mar 05, 2014

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• Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Rocks, Zion, Enemy

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.191

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• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Nursing, Compassion, Listening

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

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• By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

  John Powell

  Let It Go, Hot, World

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• The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

  Pierre Bayle

  Stamps, Impression, Furnaces

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• Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Father, Dark

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.156

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• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Adversity, Doe, Literature

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

  Jessye Norman

  Particular, Spells, I Can

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• Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Iron, Grace

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• If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

  J. C. Ryle

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".

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• With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Angel, Silence, Dumb

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Accustomed

  "In Eutropium". II. 149,

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• Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

  Ovid

  Believe, Unfortunate, Spares

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