Affliction Quote by John Flavel

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Afflictions clarify the soul.

— Francis Quarles

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 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

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

— Francis Quarles

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

— Francis Atterbury

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

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

— Charles Spurgeon

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

— Hannah More

“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

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

— Anonymous