God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.
Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve the problem of anger, we first need to recognize the anger within our mind, acknowledge how it harms both ourself and others, and appreciate the benefits of being patient in the face of difficulties.
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
I have a message for all of you. The crime and violence that today afflicts America will soon - and I mean very soon - come to an end.
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.
