Quotes with afflictions

  • It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

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  • George Macdonald Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • H.G. Wells Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • George Washington Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • John Bunyan Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • C. S. Lewis Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
    Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bodhidharma The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Francis Bacon The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Tillotson Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Benjamin Franklin To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Joseph Addison A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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