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Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

~Andrew Coyle Bradley

Topics: Afflictions Bear Children Could Death East Even Greatest He Him His Imagined Job Make More Story Than Them Tragic Wearing Were Would

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Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

~Berthold Auerbach

Topics: Afflictions Worst

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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

~Bodhidharma

Topics: Afflictions Anger Delusion Evils Greed Ignorant Infinite Mind Passions Rooted Three

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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

Topics: About Afflictions Anxieties Christ Defect Faith Feel Guilty Like Our Passion People Regard Share Sins Some Some People Take Them

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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.

~David Viscott

Topics: Afflictions Because Cure Discover Disease Evils Good Our Tend Themselves Though Us

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If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Adorn Afflictions Apostles Attribute Believing Bible Christ Christians Consequence Given His Inspired Instructions Much Obey Perplexity Religion Save Severe Them Themselves Trials Truth Unpopular Which Will

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: Afflictions Describing Ghost Hath Holy Holy Ghost Job More Pencil Than

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Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Afflictions God Shadows Wings

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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

~George Washington

Topics: Afflictions Distress Everyone Feel Give Hand Heart Proportion Purse Your

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