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.

Ibrahim Babangida

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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

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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

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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

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

Charles Spurgeon

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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Washington Irving

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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

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

James Baldwin

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

Dwight L. Moody

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Every time in an interval of time in history, the human spirit is tested and challenged by an affliction or a pestilence, and with faith and resilience, we have always proven to be indomitable.

Shehu Sani

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Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

George MacDonald

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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Robert Burns

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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

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

John Bunyan

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Affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger.

John Bunyan

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Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

John Bunyan

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There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

John Calvin

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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

John Calvin

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By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

John Newton

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Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Matthew Henry

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Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

Matthew Henry

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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.

Ibrahim Babangida

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

Francis Bacon

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

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

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

Charles Spurgeon

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Washington Irving

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

George Washington

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

James Baldwin

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

Dwight L. Moody

Every time in an interval of time in history, the human spirit is tested and challenged by an affliction or a pestilence, and with faith and resilience, we have always proven to be indomitable.

Shehu Sani

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

George MacDonald

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Robert Burns

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

Bodhidharma

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

John Bunyan

Affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger.

John Bunyan

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

John Bunyan

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

John Calvin

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

John Calvin

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

John Newton

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Matthew Henry

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

Matthew Henry

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