#afflictions

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#always #extraordinary #graces #punishment #sins

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

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#bear #children #could #death #east

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#promotions #sanctified #spiritual

As Christians, if sin were the reason for our afflictions, then we should all be in ICU" ~ R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#sins #sins-of-omission #r-alan-woods

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. ↗

— David Viscott

#because #cure #discover #disease #evils

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. ↗

— Robert Hall

#anxious #benefit #more #our #removed

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith