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• The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
• A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within… — Joseph Addison
• The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in… — Brother Lawrence
• There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most… — Charles Spurgeon
• Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain,… — John Bunyan
• Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid… — John Flavel
• The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. — John Flavel
• Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ.… — Richard Sibbes
• The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. — Richard Sibbes
• Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
• When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. — Thomas Brooks

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