Affliction Quote by 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 school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

— Francis Atterbury

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 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

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 clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.

— Francis Quarles

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 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 a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by…

— John Donne

By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness,…

— J. C. Ryle