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Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.
Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.
Feeble, I'd become afflicted
And my agony had no closure,
To love I'd become immune
Despite my abundant exposure
Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.
The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.
May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.
God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified.
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white.
Affliction was not a liability, but an asset of great value.
My greatest affliction ... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.
Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.
The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.
You shall never find a bundle of affliction which has not bound up in the midst of it sufficient grace. God
One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through the furnace of affliction.
Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.
Your mercies are more than your afflictions.
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
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.
Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
A soul exasperated in ills, falls out
With everything, its friend, itself.
Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are
sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.
The furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes ...
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us
Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice ... but the voice of eternity within a man it cannot drown. When by the aid of affliction all irrelevant voices are brought to silence, it can be heard, this voice within.
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted.
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have.
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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
malady of reverie.
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
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 glory.
The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.
Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.
We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety
Awareness seeped in and brought its friends Pain and Agony for a visit.
A malady
Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
he x does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
I have a sickness doctors can't cure,
Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,
Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,
Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,
Shameless were those my nights,
Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
What ails us? What is the name
Of our disease? Because we cannot utter it,
It is something we cannot conjure or cure.
It is the memory before this Paradise
That is the darkness of our soul.
By and by, the cause of my disease
Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,
When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.
Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
Plague on it! what madness this is, to punish one's self because one is unfortunate, and not to lessen, but to increase one's ills!
Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!
Troublemakers will infect you with the malady of their madness.
This affliction
hope
is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me
Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.
Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.
Misery is a communicable disease.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty.
May the Lord comfort the afflicted souls.
There's a sickness in my soul,
and I don't know,
but I've been told it's incurable
Pains demand to be felt.
Evil was the most contagious of diseases, so virulent that no herb, surgery, or dream-humor could cure it. One's sense of what was normal, acceptable, became distorted by proximity to wrongness; entire nations had succumbed this way, first to decadence, then collapse.
Please your eye and plague your heart.
Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.
The cadence of suffering has begun.
After identifying the scope of suffering, we need to discover its sources, which are twofold: afflictive, or counterproductive, emotions, and contaminated karmas.
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
Welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, Sit thee down, sorrow!
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.
Physical diseases, engendered in the vices and neglects of men, will seize on victims of all degrees; and the frightful moral disorder, born of unspeakable suffering, intolerable oppression, and heartless indifference, smote equally without distinction.
Ill is the very word to speak, for none Can ransom or atone For blood once shed and darkening the plain.
Had it pleas'd heaven
To try me with affliction * * *
I should have found in some place of my soul
A drop of patience.
I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed. Lamentations 1:20a niv