It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men...
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Unknown
The affliction in the flesh of soul is temporal compare to the eternal glory of the spirit.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most dishonourable belief against the character of the divinity, the most...
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Thomas Paine
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
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Matthew Henry
Genuine faith comes forth from the iron smelter of affliction.
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Robin Bertram
More Quotes By Thomas Carlyle
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything
Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
