Affliction Quotes - Page 2

• Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

  John Donne

  Men, Treasure, Fit

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.575

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• Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Heart, Knowing

  John Bunyan (1859). “The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical”, p.102

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• God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

  Charles Stanley

  Children, Character, Blessing

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• Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.

  Billy Graham

  Hands, Valleys, Lord

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• Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

  Christopher Love

  Comfort, Degrees, Looks

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• I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

  William Banting

  Men, Might, Different

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• God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Land, Dear Ones

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.32

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• Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
  'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Taught, Lovers

  Alexander Pope, “Eloisa To Abelard”

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• It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

  John Forbes Nash

  Lonely, Men, Years

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• It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Arrows, Remembrance, Joy

  Henry Mackenzie (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie ...”, p.357

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• In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Light, Oil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.66

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• There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Spring, Adversity, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.199

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• The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Agony, Faces

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.14, Discovery House

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• Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

  George MacDonald

  Wings, Shadow

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.10063, e-artnow

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• Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

  Norman Mailer

  Sauce, Flair, Worst

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel”, p.30, Random House

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• The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Horse, Heart, Doors

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, One Day, May

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.111

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• Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

  John Owen

  Religious, Darkness, Bitterness

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.583

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• Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.

  James Martineau

  Character, Temptation, Battle

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

  George Herbert

  Wind, Soul, Corn

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.306

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• The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

  Ouida

  Men, Water, Golden

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.466

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• Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

  Mencius

  Spring, Fall, Men

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• AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Soul, World, Bitterness

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.9, 谷月社

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• Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.

  Leigh Hunt

  Loss, Sorrow, Tears

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• As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

  Joseph Hall

  Running, Cutting, Men

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