"The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly……" — Robert Boyle

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

— Robert Boyle

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65 Quotes by Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being…
Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors…
If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making…
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when,…
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of…
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where…
God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to…
Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been…
I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events…
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

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More Affliction Quotes

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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