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Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Affliction is the good man’s shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as nihgt it stars, woe luster gives to man.
Many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity.
The lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
That which thou does not understand when thou readest, thou shalt understand in the day of thy visitation; for many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of calamity.
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heart and drenched by the rain of life.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears that they may read aright his providence and his commandments.
If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems too heavy, be sure that it s the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is He who carries the cross that is carrying the burden.
I have learned more of experimental religion since my little boy died than in all my life before.
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to makes us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.
The hiding places of men are discovered by affliction. As one has aptly said, “Our refuges are like the nests of birds; in summer they are hidden away among the green leaves, but in winter they are seen among the naked branches.
Sanctified afflictions are like so many artificers working on a pious man’s crown to make it more bright and massive.
Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction, and oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
Affliction is not sent in vain from the good God who chastens those that he loves.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or transcending the resources of religion to relieve.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment the gives soul, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect his people.
It is not from the tall, crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
Ah! If you only knew the peace there is in an accepted sorrow.
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
Atterbury.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Burton.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Tillotson.
Affliction is the good man’s shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as nihgt it stars, woe luster gives to man.
Young.
Many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity.
Jeremy Taylor.
The lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Spurgeon.
That which thou does not understand when thou readest, thou shalt understand in the day of thy visitation; for many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of calamity.
Jeremy Taylor.
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heart and drenched by the rain of life.
Longfellow.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
Mallet.
God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears that they may read aright his providence and his commandments.
T.L. Cuyler.
If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems too heavy, be sure that it s the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is He who carries the cross that is carrying the burden.
S.I. Prime.
I have learned more of experimental religion since my little boy died than in all my life before.
Horace Bushnell.
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to makes us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.
C.A. Bartol.
The hiding places of men are discovered by affliction. As one has aptly said, “Our refuges are like the nests of birds; in summer they are hidden away among the green leaves, but in winter they are seen among the naked branches.
J.W. Alexander.
Sanctified afflictions are like so many artificers working on a pious man’s crown to make it more bright and massive.
Cudworth.
Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction, and oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
J. Brown.
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
Burgh.
Affliction is not sent in vain from the good God who chastens those that he loves.
Southey.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or transcending the resources of religion to relieve.
T. Binney.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment the gives soul, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect his people.
Guthrie.
It is not from the tall, crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
Theodore Parker.
Ah! If you only knew the peace there is in an accepted sorrow.
Mde. Guion.
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
Colton.
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