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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

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


Jeremy Taylor


#apt #error #men #prefer #prosperous

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

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

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

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.


Fred Upton


#allies #approach #bureaucracy #busy #congress

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.


Don DeLillo


#because #company #drawn #each #fellow

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






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