#affliction

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

#answering #christian #experience #furnace #god

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ↗

— Robert Burns

#bliss #brother #brothers #distress #exquisite

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#african #communities #fault #live #majority

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

#affliction #alike #am #being #constitutions

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#defeat #either #happens #something #you

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. ↗

— John Donne

#any #enough #hath #man #man hath

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#distress #jesus #pain #experience

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

— H. G. Wells

#comes #make #sad #sober #sorry

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#could #happy #known #man #more

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#only #others #prosperity #seen #some