Quotes: Affliction
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We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672-1719)
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.
American activist (1917-1984)
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.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
British writer (1931-2023)
Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Scottish poet and lyricist (1759-1796)
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can’t spell.
American opera singer
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.
American writer, historian and diplomat (1783-1859)
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.