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“Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.”
Source: The works of John Donne
“Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.”
Source: The works of John Donne
“Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.”
“Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.”
“Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.”
Source: New & Selected Essays
“Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”
“Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.”
“Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.”
Source: Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job
“Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.”
“Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.”
“Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.”
“Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.”
Source: Sermons on the Book of Revelation
“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.”
Source: The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne
“Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.”
“Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)
“Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]
“Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.”
Source: Summaries of Thought
“AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mental consciousnesses]. however, when any of the afflicting mental factors becomes manifest, a main mind [a mental consciousness] comes under its influence, goes wherever the affliction leads it, and 'accumulates' a bad action.
there are a great many different kinds of afflictions, but the chief of them are desire, hatred, pride, wrong view and so forth. of these, desire and hatred are chief. because of an initial attachment to oneself, hatred arises when something undesirable occurs. further, through being attached to oneself the pride that holds one to be superior arises, and similarly when one has no knowledge of something, a wrong view that holds the object of this knowledge to be non-existent arises.
how do self-attachment and so forth arise in such great force? because of beginningless conditioning, the mind tightly holds to 'i, i' even in dreams, and through the power of this conception, self-attachment and so forth occur. this false conception of 'i' arises because of one's lack of knowledge concerning the mode of existence of things. the fact that all objects are empty of inherent existence is obscured and one conceives things to exist inherently; the strong conception of 'i' derives from this. therefore, the conception that phenomena inherently exist is the afflicting ignorance that is the ultimate root of all afflictions.”
“Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.”
Source: Comfort for Christians
“Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are
sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.”
“Afflictions are the steps to heaven.”
“Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ”
Source: Joyful Christian
“Afflictions clarify the soul.”
“Afflictions clarify the soul;
And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.”
“Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.”
“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.”
Source: Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel
“Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.”
Source: The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical
“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.”
“Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.”
Source: The widow directed to the widow's God
“Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.”
“Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.”
“Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.”
“Affluence = abundant flow.”
“Affluence and influence are two sides of the wealth coin; around its circumference are power, glory, honor, pomp and pageantry.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Affluence creates poverty.”
Source: The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media
“Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because inherent in having the desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.”
Source: Creating Affluence: The A-to-z Steps to a Richer Life: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass doors embrace you into a luxury hotel's plush interior, you've only had a dud replica of the real thing.”
Source: Jade Woman
“Affluence means influence.”
“Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together.”
Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
“Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.”
Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
“Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.”
“Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that's the critical factor.”
Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
“Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.”
“Affordable luxury - these are two words that don't go together.”