#afflict

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. ↗

— Christopher Love

#comforts #degree #ending #god #look

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

— Jessye Norman

#am #i #i am #particular #say

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#beliefs #case #failings #flaws #honest

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. ↗

— Robert South

#again #father #god #kills #may

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#apt #error #men #prefer #prosperous