#afflict

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. ↗

— David Viscott

#because #cure #discover #disease #evils

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#breeds #either #humanity #makes #tolerates

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. ↗

— Christopher Love

#comforts #degree #ending #god #look

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. ↗

— Robert South

#again #father #god #kills #may

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ↗

— Robert Southey

#god #good #loves #man #sent

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#been #cheer #go #good #how

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. ↗

— George Washington

#distress #everyone #feel #give #hand

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ↗

— Simone Weil

#compassion #difficult #him #just #know

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