Affliction Quote by C.S. Lewis

“Affliction is not some test that simply exists to build our character. It beats us up. It changes us. It sobers us. It raises…

— Russ Ramsey

“Be patient in affliction.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— David Mallet

“...the furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes...”

— John Geddes

“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.”

— Simone Weil

“The severest affliction is the one which has never been tried.”

— Publius Syrus

“One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through…

— Timothy Keller

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

— Hannah More

“The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

— John Donne

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

— John Angell James

“affliction was not a liability, but an asset of great value.”

— Napoleon Hill