Affliction Quotes

• "No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were."
  By: Sir John Davies
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• "God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments."
  By: Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
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• "There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "Afflictions sent by Providence melt the constancy of the noble-minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile. The same furnace that hardens clay liquefies gold; and in the strong manifesta-tions of divine power Pharaoh found his punishment, but David his pardon."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us."
  By: Claudian (Claudianus), In Eutropium (II, 149)
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• "In thy silent wishing, thy voiceless, unuttered prayer, let the desire be not cherished that afflictions may not visit thee; for well has it been said, "Such prayers never seem to have wings. I am willing to be purified through sorrow, and to accept it meekly as a blessing. I see that all the clouds are angels' faces, and their voices speak harmoniously of the everlasting chime.""
  By: Mrs. Lydia Maria Child
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• "The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction."
  By: Richard Chenevix
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• "It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips, and when we pray that it may pass away, to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us."
  By: Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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• "Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain."
  By: Richard Cecil
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• "The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle, to teach us that the storms of afflictions, which happen to God's children, are encompassed with brightness and smiling felicity."
  By: Nicolas Caussin
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• "Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"
  By: Robert Burns, In Eutropium (II, 149)
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• "If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches."
  By: James Burgh
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• "Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days."
  By: Sir William Browne (1)
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• "Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour, Serves but to brighten our future days!"
  By: John Brown (1), Bararossa (act V, sc. 3)
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• "Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house."
  By: Thomas Brooks
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