Quote by Laphoia V.Long

“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.”

— George Washington

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

— C.S. Lewis

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

— David Mallet

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

“The greatest blessing the the whole world is being a blessing.”

— Jack Hyles

“The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.”

— J.C. Ryle

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

“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

“[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

“Whoever blessings, shall be abundantly blessed.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Affliction is not some test that simply exists to build our character. It beats us up. It changes us. It sobers us. It raises…

— Russ Ramsey

“God is our refuge in times of affliction.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita