Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.
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