Able Quote by John Bunyan

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

— Francis Quarles

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

— Thomas a Kempis

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

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

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

— Hugh Blair

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— John Angell James

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

— Ambrose Bierce

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

— Charles Spurgeon

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

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more…

— Evelyn Underhill