Affection Quote by J. C. Ryle

By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world,…

— J. C. Ryle

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

— John Donne

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

— Robert Southey

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

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

— David Mallet

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

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

“[Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the…

— Robert Murray McCheyne

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

“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