Affliction Quote by Tennessee Williams

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

— David Mallet

“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

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

— Mary Baker Eddy

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 but the shadow of God's wing.

— George MacDonald

Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the…

— Robert E. Murray

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

— George MacDonald

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

— Thomas Watson

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and…

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— C. S. Lewis

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to…

— Henry Ward Beecher