#affliction

Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love. ↗

— John Wesley

#john-wesley #faith

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. ↗

— Ovid

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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

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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

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

— H. G. Wells

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#defect #either #genius #given #gods

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#chaff #does #purify #separates #threshing

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#death #did #die #died #others

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. ↗

— David Mallet

#calm #flourish #fortitude #honor #humility