Adversity Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and…

— Danielle Teller

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

— Francis Atterbury

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of Gods own stamp.

— Robert Boyle

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

— David Mallet

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

— Francis Bacon

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

— Pierre Bayle

“For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small,…

— Augustine of Hippo

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

— Baroness Orczy

Virtue is harmony.

— Pythagoras

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

— Anonymous

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

— Norm MacDonald

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie