"Afflictions clarify the soul." — Francis Quarles

More Affliction Quotes

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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
• The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
• Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
• God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
• No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
• What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
• A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
• Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
• In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
• When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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