Synonyms for afflictions
af·flic·tions

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1. List of paraphrases for "afflictions":

   inflictions, evils, woes, ills, scourges

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1. Joseph Addison:

   A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

2. John Bunyan:

   Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

3. Clive Staples Lewis:

   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.

4. Bryant McGill:

   Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity’s great afflictions.

5. Berthold Auerbach:

   Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.