Affliction Quote by Thomas a Kempis

The flesh is strong, the spirit is stronger.

— Styx

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

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

— John Flavel

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

— T. B. Joshua

The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent,…

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

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

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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

It takes suffering to widen the soul.

— Billy Graham

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we…

— Orson F. Whitney

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