37 quotes found
“There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.”
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion....”
“Be patient in affliction.”
“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradic...”
“The affliction in the flesh of soul is temporal compare to the eternal glory of the spirit.”
“Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.”
“Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.”
“Genuine faith comes forth from the iron smelter of affliction.”
“Start with a cry, end with a smile.”
“The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.”
“It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change.”
“God is reciprocally responding to the cry of the afflicted.”
“The main recipients of injustice in any society are the afflicted the distressed and the troubled one, both in soul and in body.”
“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for...”
“Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic ...”
“When we start rating each others lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.”
“The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere. No matter where you may go, you cannot escape it, for wherever you go you take yourself with you and shall always find yourself. Tur...”
“If we are taught by God in affliction we are blessed. When God teaches, he applies his instruction to the heart. He commands light to shine out of darkness (2 Corinthians 4:6). The Holy Spirit brin...”
“Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.”
“The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a sin...”
