Affliction Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— David Mallet

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— John Angell James

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

— John Donne

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

— Thomas a Kempis

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

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

— C. S. Lewis

“The Greatest Afflictions brings forth the Greatest Blessings.”

— Laphoia V.Long

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

— Robert Boyle

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and…

— Walter Savage Landor