Affliction Quote by Thomas Brooks

“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

God measures out affliction to our need.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst…

— John Wesley

“God is our refuge in times of affliction.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to…

— Benedict Joseph Labre

“One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through…

— Timothy Keller

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in…

— Elaine A. Cannon

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

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

— William Shakespeare

“God is reciprocally responding to the cry of the afflicted.”

— Sunday Adelaja

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

— Richard Cecil