Affliction Quote by Matthew Henry

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

— Francis Atterbury

Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed…

— John Bunyan

Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

— Francis Chan

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

— Voltaire

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

— Rose of Lima

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for…

— Teresa of Avila

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they…

— Johannes Tauler

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

— Anonymous

“Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist.”

— William Young

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

— Benjamin Whichcote

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's…

— Honore de Balzac