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#affliction

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The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.


Jerry Leiber


#background #being #black #blacks #common

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.


C. S. Lewis


#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.


David Mallet


#calm #flourish #fortitude #honor #humility

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.


Dwight L. Moody


#better #forget #god #prosperity #stand

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.


Blaise Pascal


#always #console #ignorance #knowledge #me

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.


Matthew Henry


#promotions #sanctified #spiritual

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

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.


Charles Spurgeon


#best #gets #his #lord #out

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.


Charles Stanley


#arrows #attention #away #because #beloved

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.


Thomas Sydenham


#ailments #bound #common #exemption #fellows






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