#affliction

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

— Robert Southey

#god #good #loves #man #sent

Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#friends #friendship #hardships #relationships #richelle

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

#death #did #die #died #others

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#always #console #ignorance #knowledge #me

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. ↗

— Washington Irving

#brood #cherish #consider #dead #divorced

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. ↗

— George MacDonald

#god #shadows #wings

Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#jesus #sympathy #love

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. ↗

— Berthold Auerbach

#worst

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ↗

— Robert Burns

#bliss #brother #brothers #distress #exquisite