Affliction Quotes

We used to joke about it: `Give me an affliction and I`ll give you an Oscar!` They`re not giving an award for acting. It`s, `Thanks for making me feel something. Here`s a prize.` Somehow people don`t put comedy in their emotional bank the same way. It relieves a tension, it unties a knot, but it`s not something where people want to give you a prize. They just want to say, `Thanks for making me laugh,` which I genuinely treasure. That makes me feel good.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God`s ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord`s choicest wines.

In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

If I didn`t have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient`s own arrangement, which only he can change.

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.