Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make…

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

I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy…

— Joseph Williams

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

— Dwight L. Moody

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

— Epicurus

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

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