A Quote by Berthold Auerbach

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Berthold Auerbach

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Berthold Auerbach
German - Author
February 28, 1812 - February 8, 1882

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

Berthold Auerbach

I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit to subdue my corruptions, my pride, my evil passions, my inordinate love to the creature. Afflictions soften my hard heart, bring me to my knees, increase faith, increase love, increase humility, increase self-denial. Afflictions make me poor in spirit, and nothing in my own eyes.

Joseph Williams

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

John M. Gottman

Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified

Margaret Mary Alacoque

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

Charles Spurgeon

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Eric Hoffer

A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in spite of them. Afflictions be praised!

Elaine A. Cannon

Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

Saint Augustine

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

Eric Hoffer

There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory.

Saint Francis de Sales

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

James M. Barrie

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

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.