86 Quotes About Affliction

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

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

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.