#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

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#always #extraordinary #graces #punishment #sins

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

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #tfios #ignorance

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

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#aggression #culture #find #impede #less

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#bankrupt #cancer #happens #i #like