Quotes about Affliction

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. The ABC truths upset the excessive centralization of ignorance. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: 'Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word. Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary. Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God. In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy. Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing. God measures out affliction to our need. I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that, too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power... It is but too evident that the three ruling branches of [the Federal government] are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted. Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses. The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright. I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks. Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing. We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of. There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction. Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him. Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it. Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction. Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, and makes us long for heaven. The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. I'll put it this way, there was no C.P. Kennedy, there was no Dwight Dickham, we never went in the courtroom. That was the script I got. The affliction that the judge is suffering from was completely different. A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest. Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.