Affliction Quote by Thomas Brooks

Suffering saints are living seed.

— Charles Spurgeon

Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them.

— Shri Radhe Maa

To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.

— Theodore Melfi

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for…

— Thomas Merton

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness…

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— David Mallet

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who…

— Peter Kreeft

Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely,…

— Henry Suso

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

— Dan Millman

The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it…

— Watchman Nee