A Quote by William Arthur Ward

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

William Arthur Ward

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Breeds Either Humanity Makes

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William Arthur Ward
American - Writer
1921 - 1994

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

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

Bryant H. McGill

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

Charles Spurgeon

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

You want to show your people that you value them, and you're not going to hurt them just to get a little more money in the short term. Not furloughing people breeds loyalty. It breeds a sense of security. It breeds a sense of trust.

Herb Kelleher

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

Barbara Corcoran

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

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

Kym Whitley

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

Dale Carnegie

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

Franklin P. Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

George Santayana

Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions.

Carl Jung

Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin, is now become a bed of rest (Is. 57:2); so afflictions are not the rod of God's anger, but the gentle medicine of a tender father.

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Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.