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Affliction Quotes by Thomas Brooks
- When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
- 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.
- There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.
- Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
- Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
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