Affliction Quotes
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Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction, That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.
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As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.
a.c. cuza— From "?tiin?a antisemitismului" ("The Science of Anti-Semitism"), Apararea Nationala ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922, lst year.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long Absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Alexander Pope— Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift, December 14, 1725.
affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 3, line 2.
affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!
— Costard, scene i
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
— 1920 And Even Now,'The Pines'.
Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call hisname Ishmael; becausethe L hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis16:11-12.
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.
richard cecil— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, pg. 9)
There is mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot.
william cowper— "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk," Line 53.
What will you do with Jesus? Do with Him did I say? O what, what will you do without Him f What, when affliction and anguish shall come upon you? what, when closing your eyelids in death? what, when appearing before the awful judgment-seat?
richard fuller— P. 95. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
washington irving— "Rural Funerals".
There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.
thomas watson— "Christ The Redeemer" in A Body of Divinity (1692)
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and some in prosperity.
joseph addison— No. 257 (25 December 1711).
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
max beerbohm— No. 2, The Pines (1914)
The real affliction of old age is remorse .
cesare pavese— Chapter VIII, p. 49
It's a risky business to send a picture out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent who could extend their affliction universally!
mark rothko— As quoted in Conversations with Artists (1957) by Selden Rodman, p. 92; later published in "Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956" in Writings on Art : Mark Rothko (2006) edited by Miguel López-Remiro ISBN 0300114400
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
Arthur Schopenhauer— E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 345
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
john greenleaf whittier— John Greenleaf Whittier, To my Friend on the Death of his Sister.
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once, and attentively, to what it teaches.
— James Burgh, p. 10. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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.
— Richard Cecil, p. 9. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as " in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us.
— Alexander Maclaren, p. 11. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.
— James Martineau, p. 8. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upward when they are most burdened.
— Sir Philip Sidney, p. 10. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.
— "Christ The Redeemer" in A Body of Divinity (1692)
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
cesare pavese— Cesare Pavese, The moon and the bonfire, chapter VIII, p. 49.
Henceforth I'll bear affliction till it do cry out itself, Enough, enough, and die.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act IV, scene 6, line 75.
