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Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.


Matthew Henry


#always #extraordinary #graces #punishment #sins

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.


Finley Peter Dunne


#afflicted #comfort #comfortable

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.


Fred Upton


#allies #approach #bureaucracy #busy #congress

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.


Barbara Deming


#affliction #anger #bring #change #could

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.


Fay Weldon


#desire #feel #getting #outside #people

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.


H. G. Wells


#comes #make #sad #sober #sorry

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.


Margaret J. Wheatley


#aggression #culture #find #impede #less

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.


Fay Weldon


#could #happy #known #man #more

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.


John Woolman


#afflicted #been #christ #clearness #deeply

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#artistic #disease #temperament






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