Affliction Quotes

• "Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die."
  By: Thomas Southerne (Southern)
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• "God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again."
  By: Bishop Robert South
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• "The great, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest heart, like the palm-tree, to strive most upward when it is most burdened."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity."
  By: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
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• "Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald me like molten lead."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at IV, vii)
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• "Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.'"
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Gloucester at IV, vi)
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• "'T is a physic that is bitter to sweet end."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree."
  By: Samuel Rutherford
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• "The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, shadows indicate the sun."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "And this is the course of Nature: there is nothing like suffering to enlighten the giddy brain, widen the narrow mind, improve the trivial heart."
  By: Charles Reade
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• "Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "In time of affliction, a vow; in the time of prosperity, an increase of wickedness."
  By: Proverb
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• "God is now spoiling us of what would otherwise have spoiled us. When God makes the world too hot for His people to hold, they will let it go."
  By: Thomas Powell
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• "Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt; Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (III, 6, 21)
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• "We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe."
  By: Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee)
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