Afflictions Quotes

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.

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

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

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.