Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.
– George MacDonald
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- May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them. – Scott Cairns
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- Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity’s great afflictions – Bryant McGill
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- How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow. – Gillian Flynn
- No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes. – Plato
- The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. – Ferdinand Magellan
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- He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. – F Scott Fitzgerald
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