Affliction Quotes

• "Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man."
  By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 415)
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• "Thy pleasure points the shaft, and bends the bow; The cluster lasts, or bids it brightly glow."
  By: Edward Young
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• "Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene; Resumes them, to prepare us for the next."
  By: Edward Young
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• "With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!"
  By: John Greenleaf Whittier, To my Friend on the Death of his Sister
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• "Perfumes, the more they are chafed, the more they render their pleasant scents; and so affliction expresseth virtue fully."
  By: John Webster
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• "What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (I, 460)
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• "Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity."
  By: Unknown
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• "That which thou dost not understand when thou readest, thou shaft 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 a great calamity."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune."
  By: Laurence Sterne
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• "The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."
  By: Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings Among the Sheaves--Sorrow's Disciple
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• "Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them."
  By: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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• "As sure as God ever puts His children into the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them."
  By: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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• "Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions."
  By: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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• "Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves."
  By: Robert Southey, Madoc in Wales (III, l. 176)
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• "Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die."
  By: Thomas Southerne (Southern)
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