Afflictions

Another sufferer is "desahuiciado with lamparones y empeines," severe skin afflictions, but he, too, is cured after the holy soil is rubbed on him, as is another man who is suffering from "one hundred and ten sores." ❋ Unknown (2008)

And the most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I call my afflictions light ones and am embarrassed to include them on a page that speaks of the four girls who perished in a Sunday-school classroom. ❋ T.D. Jakes (2007)

One great comfort, however, under all afflictions, is that 'The French ❋ Unknown (1883)

Christ was destined to endure certain afflictions in this figurative body, as well as in His literal; these were "that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ," which ❋ Unknown (1871)

Faith gives strength to prayer, the great instrument against the foe (Jas 1: 6, &c.). knowing, &c. -- "encouragement not to faint in afflictions": your brethren suffer the same; nothing beyond the common lot of Christians befalls you (1Co 10: 13). ❋ Unknown (1871)

The economy is flirting with recession, the debt crisis has threatened to move beyond Greece and banks are looking increasingly fragile - and that's on top of the some of the longer term afflictions such as an aging population. ❋ DAVID BERMAN (2011)

Note, Those who have been sharers with each other in afflictions and mercies, dangers and deliverances, ought in consideration thereof to unite for their joint and mutual safety and protection; and it is likely to be well with the church when Ephraim and Judah are one against the Philistines. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Note, The intention of afflictions is to teach us righteousness; and blessed is the man whom God chastens, and thus teaches, Ps. xciv. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The best way to bear afflictions is to look to the end of them; and the pity of God is such that he will not delay the bringing of them to an end when his purposes are once answered; and the tender mercy of God is such that he will make his people an abundant amends for all their sufferings and afflictions. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The end of good people's afflictions is the trial of their faith. ❋ Unknown (1721)

There is the more reason for joy in afflictions if we consider the other graces that are promoted by them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The period of the world times, and of Israel's depression, from the Babylonian captivity to the millennium, though abounding more in afflictions (for example, the two destructions of ❋ Unknown (1871)

The boy David understood that the only one who can free us from our enemies, our fears, and our afflictions is the Lord, Our Father. ❋ Marcos Witt (2007)

It requires veterans to prove, through documents and sometimes through the testimony of fellow soldiers, that their afflictions are a result of their time in the military. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The pages and pamphlets addressing her afflictions are all full of squeam and delicacy, and therefore lacking in the kind of down-and-dirty, up-the-bum tips that her co-sufferers need to recover. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In his grief the scop comforts himself by recalling the afflictions of various heroes, and he ends each stanza with the refrain: ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)

How innumerable are the benefits which God conveys to the children of men through the channel of sufferings, so that it might well be said, “What are termed afflictions in the language of men are in the language of God styled blessings. ❋ Unknown (1906)