Affliction Quote by Richard Sibbes

All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is a way…

— Luciana Berger

The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

— Richard Sibbes

“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for…

— Richard Sibbes

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

— Richard Sibbes

Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time…

— Richard Sibbes

God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them,…

— Richard Sibbes

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

Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at…

— Richard Sibbes

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

— Sol LeWitt

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

— William Shakespeare

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

— George MacDonald

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

— John Calvin