Abandon Quote by Benedict Joseph Labre

God measures out affliction to our need.

— Saint John Chrysostom

By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness,…

— J. C. Ryle

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

Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst…

— John Wesley

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

— Robert Southey

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought…

— Izaak Walton

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

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

— John Angell James

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but…

— Simone Weil

Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no…

— Joseph Hall

By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world,…

— J. C. Ryle

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold,…

— John Powell