Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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.
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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.
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.
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
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