Affliction Quote by Thomas Watson

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

— Thomas Watson

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

— Thomas Watson

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

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

— John Donne

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

— George MacDonald

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

— George MacDonald

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

— John Donne

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

My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous…

— Tennessee Williams

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

— Anonymous