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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

Topics: Affliction Arrows Attention Away Because Beloved Blessings Character Children Even Get God He His Knows Opportunities Our Painful Refinement Sharp Sin Us

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In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Affliction After Alzheimer Died Disease Fascinating Father Followed Four Him His Lands Prolonged Shadow Sibling Struggle

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Affliction Does Purify Separates Virtue Wheat

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Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

~Christopher Love

Topics: Affliction Comforts Degree Ending God Look Measure Mercies Pour Rather Than Want You Your

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With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.

~Dash Mihok

Topics: Affliction Because Compassion Element Empathy Innately Possess Vulnerability You

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

~David Mallet

Topics: Affliction Calm Flourish Fortitude Honor Humility Patience Root Soil Strongly Sweet Take Virtue Where Wholesome

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

~Dwight L. Moody

Topics: Affliction Better Forget God Prosperity Stand Than

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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

~Fay Weldon

Topics: Affliction Could Happy Known Man More Never Than Who

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Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

~Francis Atterbury

Topics: Affliction Confidence Corrects Levity School Sinning Virtue

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I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.

~Gareth Gates

Topics: Affliction All My Life Decisions Fair Life Made Make Me My Life Say Shaped Some Suffer Sure

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