Affliction Quotes
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.
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.
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.
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.
Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.
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.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.
Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.
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.
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.
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.
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.
