Affliction Quote by John Newton

“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

Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.

— T. B. Joshua

Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

— Isaac of Nineveh

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer

— Bible

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

— Martin Luther

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that helps and never fails.

— Martin Luther

The effective prayers are affirmations.

— James Redfield

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

— Richard Cecil

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

— David Mallet

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

— Thomas Keating

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

— Thomas Brooks

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

— Edward McKendree Bounds