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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always
oppress those who are unfortunate.
[Lat., Crede read more
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always
oppress those who are unfortunate.
[Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt;
Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.]
The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of
affliction.
- Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of
affliction.
- Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease read more
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the read more
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, read more
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.
