Affliction Quotes

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As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it. — Charles Spurgeon
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction,… — Charles Spurgeon
There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most… — Charles Spurgeon
God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict… — Jerry Bridges
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
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the… — John Flavel
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. — John Flavel
Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of… — Richard Sibbes
Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. — Richard Sibbes
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. — Richard Sibbes
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. — Thomas Brooks
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short. — Thomas Brooks
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. — Richard Sibbes
As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst. — William Jenkyn
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. — John Owen
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. — Samuel Rutherford
God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that… — Richard Sibbes
The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The… — Charles Spurgeon
It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting… — John Flavel

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