Affliction Quote by Robert E. Murray

“[Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the…

— Robert Murray McCheyne

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

— David Mallet

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought…

— Izaak Walton

Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty,…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but…

— Simone Weil

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by…

— John Donne

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

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

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

— C. S. Lewis

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

— Ambrose Bierce

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so…

— John Flavel

“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