Affliction Quote by Anonymous

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

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— John Angell James

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

— Thomas Paine

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

— William James

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

— C. S. Lewis

Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the…

— Robert E. Murray

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by…

— John Donne

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

— David Mallet

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is good for me that I have been afflicted.

— Mary Rowlandson

“Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgements which people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be…

— Donald Robertson