Affliction Quote by Charles Spurgeon

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

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

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy…

— Joseph Williams

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

— C. S. Lewis

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

— Anonymous

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

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

— Thomas Watson

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

— Anonymous

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

— David Mallet

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

— John Angell James

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

— Thomas Watson