#afflict

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#distress #jesus #pain #experience

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #tfios #ignorance

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#appear #before #caring #concern #cure

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#also #background #bit #cancer #die

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

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

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

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. ↗

— Robert Hall

#anxious #benefit #more #our #removed

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#artistic #disease #temperament

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ↗