Affection Quote by J. C. Ryle

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

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

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it…

— Charles Spurgeon

Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time…

— Richard Sibbes

One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.

— John Wesley

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to…

— Benedict Joseph Labre

“Afflictions quicken us to prayer. It is a pity it should be so; but experience testifies, that a long course of ease and prosperity,…

— John Newton

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

Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst…

— John Wesley

“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort … our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising … our…

— Julian of Norwich