Afflictions Quotes

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

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

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

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

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

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

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