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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! -- Robert Burns
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. -- H. G. Wells
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. -- David Mallet
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. -- Charles Spurgeon
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. -- Dwight L. Moody
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. -- James A. Baldwin
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
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. -- Simone Weil
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. -- Blaise Pascal
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. -- Barbara Deming
Affliction is a good man's shining time. -- Edward Young
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing. -- George MacDonald
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. -- George MacDonald
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften. -- Charles Spurgeon
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction is the best book in a minister's library. -- Charles Spurgeon
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. -- Thomas Watson
Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. -- Richard Sibbes
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. -- Ben Jonson
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. -- Thomas Brooks
Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it. -- Pope Gregory I
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. -- Abu Bakr
Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it. -- Denise Levertov
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. -- William Shakespeare
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. -- Charles Spurgeon
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. -- John Donne
Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away. -- Thomas Watson
Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!. -- William Shakespeare
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. -- William Shakespeare
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. -- Francis Atterbury
Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other. -- Henry Vaughan
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. -- James Burgh
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. -- Hannah More
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. -- Robert Southey
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. -- Matthew Henry
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. -- C. S. Lewis
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise -- Henry Ward Beecher
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it. -- Charles Spurgeon
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. -- Samuel Rutherford
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions. -- Charles Spurgeon
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. -- Edward Young
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. -- Joseph Hall
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away. -- Thomas Watson
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. -- Hannah More
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. -- John Owen
One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world. -- Jeremiah Burroughs
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul. -- John Flavel
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God. -- John Donne
If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were. -- Sir John Davies
Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it. -- Thomas Boston
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him. -- Izaak Walton
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. -- Ovid
And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction. -- Daniel Defoe
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. -- C. S. Lewis
I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. -- John Green
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not. -- Simone Weil
To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand. -- Emily Dickinson
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us -- Henry Ward Beecher
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. -- Joseph Addison
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. -- Samuel Rutherford
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. -- Max Beerbohm
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction. -- Christopher Love
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me. -- Saint Ignatius
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay -- Charles Caleb Colton
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change -- Alfred Adler
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. -- Miguel de Unamuno
I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction. -- Alain de Botton
We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of. -- Rahul Gandhi
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. -- Anne Bradstreet
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement. -- Charles Stanley
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction. -- William Banting
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. -- Washington Irving
Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction. -- Ann McLane Kuster
God measures out affliction to our need. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction. -- Jeri Smith-Ready
The real affliction of old age is remorse. -- Cesare Pavese
Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. -- Laini Taylor
Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction. -- Jack Hyles
Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction. -- Daniel Defoe
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction. -- Plautus
In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith -- John Calvin
Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction. -- Will Rogers
Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it. -- Thomas Watson
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. -- Robert Aris Willmott
This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me -- Patricia McCormick
Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction -- Virgil
A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread. -- Omar Kiam
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. -- Ambrose Bierce
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. -- Ambrose Bierce
I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience. -- Charles Spurgeon
Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned -- Jane Elliott
Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. -- Aubrey Thomas de Vere
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. -- Thomas Brooks
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it -- Mary Rowlandson
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form. -- Bodhidharma
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction. -- J. C. Ryle
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget. -- Alexander Pope
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. -- Khalil Gibran
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted. -- Charles Spurgeon
The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright. -- Charles Spurgeon
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. -- Naguib Mahfouz
The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. -- Jean de la Bruyere
There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction. -- Thomas Watson
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise. -- Simone Weil
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. -- Jessye Norman
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. -- Samuel Rutherford
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. -- Mary Baker Eddy
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. -- John Bunyan
The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of... -- Lydia Lunch

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