#afflict

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You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.


Princess Diana


#comfort #comfortable #you

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.


Washington Irving


#brood #cherish #consider #dead #divorced

More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases.


Ron Kind


#cell #cell research #could #cures #debilitating

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.


Walter Salles


#america #latin #latin america #leprosy #much

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.


Alan Thicke


#effects #even #family #get #help

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.


Charles H. Spurgeon


#cross-bearing #mercy #trials #horses

As Christians, if sin were the reason for our afflictions, then we should all be in ICU" ~ R. Alan Woods [2012]


R. Alan Woods


#sins #sins-of-omission #r-alan-woods

Although there are several 'schools of thought' relating to why God allows mental, emotional, and physical afflictions, it essentially remains a mystery" ~ R. Alan Woods [2012]


R. Alan Woods


#mystery #mystery-of-life #r-alan-woods

I had these made special. The design is raised instead of carved in. Can you feel it?" Dillon asked. Hunter ran his fingertip over the outside of the ring. He nodded as a tear formed in the corner of his eye. "Can you tell me what it is?" Dillon asked quietly. Hunter nodded and his voice choked. "Two people…" "Two men," Dillon corrected. "Two men," Hunter said, "pulling each other into the center of a circle." Dillon watched his single tear slip and start sliding down his cheek. "Would you step into that circle with me, Hunter?" Hunter nodded, a small sound escaping him. "Yes.


Brandon Shire


#design

(...)"He said we all have this different idea of what love is and that's what makes our circle. The more ideas and misconceptions you throw in, the larger the diameter and the harder it is to connect with someone. We," he said, squeezing Hunter's hand and signaling Margie and everyone around them, "all sit around the edge looking at everyone else around the circle. Sometimes we just settle for the person next to us because it's easy or convenient and we skip our way around its circumference, never really knowing what love is all about." He took a sip of his Coke and kept his eyes on Margie. "But other times, you see that person across from you, staring back at you, and you fight like hell trying to get across while he does the same. If you're lucky, there's a rope you can toss over and help draw each other in, never looking away, never worrying about those still on the circumference; just you and him, pulling each other in, deeper and deeper."


Brandon Shire


#dillon #hunter #margie #love