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“Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.”

Long Soul Suffering Jesus Comfort Your Soul Affliction

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“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.”

Want Looks Comfort Degrees Mercy Affliction

Author:Christopher Love

“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.”

Life Should Acceptance Comfort Comfortable Affliction Complacency

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.”

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Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.”

Source: The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther

“Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."”

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Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of their grace and make it flourish more; this may fill their hearts with joy till they run over.”

Knows Heart May Matter Running Joy Fall Water Hurt Religious Grace Comfort Blessing All Things Crosses Roots Showers Affliction Godly Assured Withering

Book:All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28

Source: All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28

“He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.”

Faces Comfort Storm Guides Lifts Affliction

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.”

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Author:Saint Basil

“Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.”

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Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts