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- The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
- A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and… — Joseph Addison
- The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand… — Brother Lawrence
- There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances,… — Charles Spurgeon
- Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat… — John Bunyan
- Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching,… — 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,… — 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… — 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