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.

Affliction comes to us not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue where patience honor sweet humility and calm fortitude take root and strongly flourish.

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.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

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

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.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience experience hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

If some persons died and others did not die death would be a terrible affliction.

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

Our task of course is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think in fact that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

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