#affliction

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#cross-bearing #mercy #trials #horses

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

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#am #cellar #choicest #i #i am

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

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

#confidence #corrects #levity #school #sinning

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#crutch #desirable #divested #frightening #more

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#affliction #anger #bring #change #could

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. ↗

— George Washington

#distress #everyone #feel #give #hand

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

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#better #forget #god #prosperity #stand