Adversity Quote by Philip Sidney

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

— Philip Sidney

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

— Philip Sidney

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

— John Bunyan

Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.

— Brother Lawrence

I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy…

— Joseph Williams

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

— David Mallet

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

— Thomas a Kempis

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

— Hannah More

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life…

— Charles Dickens

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

— John Angell James

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

— Francis Quarles

By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness,…

— J. C. Ryle