#afflict

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ↗

— Robert Southey

#god #good #loves #man #sent

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#been #cheer #go #good #how

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#distress #jesus #pain #experience

Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#friends #friendship #hardships #relationships #richelle

…It's breadth, and the strength between us to know that we're ready for the next step. I want to do it this way so it lasts, and I need you to understand that for me." "I understand." "Do you?" Hunter asked him closely. "Then why do I still hear rejection in your voice?" "Because I'm impulsive, and immature, and…in love with you. ↗

— Brandon Shire

#love

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. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#appear #before #caring #concern #cure

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#also #background #bit #cancer #die

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. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#affliction #anger #bring #change #could

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#desire #feel #getting #outside #people

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#comes #make #sad #sober #sorry