Affliction Quote by William Gurnall

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

— John Bunyan

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

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

— Dwight L. Moody

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

— Epicurus

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

— Jeremiah Burroughs

God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from…

— Joseph Caryl

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

— C. S. Lewis

“Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.”

— George MacDonald

The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

— Claudius Claudianus

Afflictions clarify the soul.

— Francis Quarles

Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and…

— George Downame

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

— John Angell James