Affliction Quote by Pierre Bayle

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of Gods own stamp.

— Robert Boyle

“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

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to…

— Benedict Joseph Labre

“One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through…

— Timothy Keller

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Darknesse and light divide the course of time, and oblivion snares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember…

— Thomas Browne

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it…

— Charles Spurgeon

By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world,…

— J. C. Ryle

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

— John Calvin

God measures out affliction to our need.

— Saint John Chrysostom

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

— John Angell James

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they…

— Daniel Defoe