I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
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.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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.
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.
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
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