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'.
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget! How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love th'offender, yet detest th'offence? How the dear object from the crime remove, Or how distinguish penitence from love? 659
Alexander Pope— 1717 'Eloisa to Abelard'.
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.
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
— p.42 (From Optimism to Hope (2004))
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
The love of these things that are outside visible Christianity keeps me outside the Church... But it also seems to me that when one speaks to you of unbelievers who are in affliction and accept their affliction as a part of the order of the world, it does not impress you in the same way as if it were a question of Christians and of submission to the will of God. Yet it is the same thing.
— Simone Weil, Last letter to Father Joseph-Marie Perrin, from a refugee camp in Casablanca (26 May 1942), as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 111.
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
— Charles Spurgeon, Gleanings Among the Sheaves, Sorrow's Discipline.
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))
Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 2, line 17.
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
cesare pavese— Cesare Pavese, The moon and the bonfire, chapter VIII, p. 49.
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.
affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
— Hannah More, p. 8. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
— Charles Spurgeon, p. 9. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
