Top 345 Affliction Quotes & Sayings

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.

A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or doubt. People today can't do this... what is the affliction? Their affliction is their lack of self-confidence. If you do not spontaneously trust yourself sufficiently, you will be in a frantic state, pursuing all sorts of objects, unable to be independent.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last, he was better for an affliction. But, a great many Godly men have been worse for their prosperity.

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

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.

By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.

He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept affliction is taken prisoner by evil thoughts, even though he resists them.

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

God measures out affliction to our need.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.