Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that…

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our…

— Anonymous

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

— Anonymous

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

— Scott Cairns

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

— Jeremiah Burroughs

God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from…

— Joseph Caryl

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

— C. S. Lewis

“Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.”

— George MacDonald

The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

— Claudius Claudianus

Afflictions clarify the soul.

— Francis Quarles

Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and…

— George Downame

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

— John Angell James

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

— Thomas Brooks

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

— John Bunyan

We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

— John Calvin