Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.
The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.