Affliction Quote by Francis Atterbury

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

— Hannah More

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

— David Mallet

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought…

— Izaak Walton

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

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so…

— John Flavel

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

— Hannah More

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

— Ambrose Bierce

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

— George MacDonald

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden…

— John Bunyan

Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty,…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

— Robert Southey

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