“To love the world is to be afflicted.”
“Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.”
“We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.”
“Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.”
“Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.”
“Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.”