Abandon Quote by Benedict Joseph Labre

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

— Thomas Watson

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

— Robert South

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