Affliction Quotes

• "We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe."
  By: Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee)
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• "The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge."
  By: Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee)
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• "As they lay copper in aquafortis before they begin to engrave it, so the Lord usually prepares us by the searching, softening discipline of affliction for making a deep, lasting impression of himself upon our hearts."
  By: John Thomas Nottidge
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• "Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed."
  By: Hannah More
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• "Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict."
  By: Hannah More
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• "With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn."
  By: Miguel de Molinos
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• "Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul."
  By: Miguel de Molinos
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• "Fairer and more fruitful in spring the vine becomes from the skilful pruning of the husbandman; less pure had been the gums which the odorous balsam gives if it had not been cut by the knife of the Arabian shepherd."
  By: Metastasio (pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro)
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• "Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease."
  By: Mencius
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• "Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation."
  By: James Martineau
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• "Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue; Where patience, honor, sweet humanity, Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish."
  By: David Mallet and James Thomson
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• "Are afflictions aught But mercies in disguise? th' alternate cup. Medicinal though bitter, and prepar'd By love's own hand for salutary ends."
  By: David Mallet (originally Malloch)
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• "The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?"
  By: Alexander Maclaren
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• "Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."
  By: Alexander Maclaren
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• "It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed."
  By: Henry Mackenzie ("Man of Feeling" or "Addison of the North")
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• "Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing."
  By: George MacDonald
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