Affliction Quotes

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

  H. G. Wells

  Wise, Sorry, War

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• Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Sea, Grace

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78”, p.92, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Adversity, Son

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• Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

  Richard Sibbes

  Religious, Pride, Grace

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.3399, Titus Books

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• Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

  Hannah More

  School, Character, Virtue

  Hannah More (1812). “Practical piety...”, p.206

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• Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

  Matthew Henry

  Punishment, Grace, Trials

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Book of Job - Complete Bible Commentary Verse by Verse”, p.188, Editora Dracaena

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• Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

  Simone Weil

  Nursing, Compassion, Listening

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

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• Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

  Francis Atterbury

  School, Virtue, Levity

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• Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Iron, Grace

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Daily Help Devotional”, p.12, Whitaker House

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

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Adversity, Forget The Past

  Dwight L Moody (1958). “Talks to Christians”, p.81, Moody Publishers

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• By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

  J. C. Ryle

  Long, Heaven, Grace

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".

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• 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.

  Richard Cecil

  Christian, Patience, Prayer

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• By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

  John Powell

  Let It Go, Hot, World

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• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Adversity, Doe, Literature

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• The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

  Pierre Bayle

  Stamps, Impression, Furnaces

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• As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Children, Grace

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• Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

  Aubrey Thomas de Vere

  Light, Messengers, Graves

  Aubrey Thomas DE VERE (1842). “The Waldenses, Or the Fall of Rora: a Lyrical Sketch. With Other Poems”, p.295

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• Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

  Ovid

  Believe, Unfortunate, Spares

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• I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

  Jessye Norman

  Particular, Spells, I Can

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

  Washington Irving

  Mourning, Sorrow, Cherish

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.270

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• The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Accustomed

  "In Eutropium". II. 149,

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• Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Father, Dark

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.156

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• With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Angel, Silence, Dumb

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

  Alfred Adler

  Would Be, Firsts, Patient

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• Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Iron, Grace

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