Zitat des Tages über Gebrechen / Affliction:
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.
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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.
We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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.
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
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.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
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.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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.
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction.
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.
Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.