Definition of Affliction

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Definition of Affliction
	Affliction The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. Related Definitions: Afflicted, An, As, Being, Body, Cause, Continued, Distress, Grief, Grievous, Instance, Mind, Of, Or, Pain, Sickness, State, The

Affliction Quotations

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal

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

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Charles Spurgeon

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
James A. Baldwin

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid

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

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Simone Weil

Affliction Translations

affliction in Dutch is droefheit, hartzeer, beproeving
affliction in Latin is plaga

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