
“God has commanded time to console the afflicted.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLVII : Startling Intelligence; Eliza to Gilbert
“God has commanded time to console the afflicted.”
From the speech "Plymouth, Labor Day" (1 September 1919), as printed in Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd Ed.), Houghton Mifflin, pp. 200-201 : see link above.
1910s, Plymouth, Labor Day (1919)
Why I Do Not Cease Teaching and Writing, 1539
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 117
“comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable”
Source: The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses