Affliction Quotes

• "Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing."
  By: George MacDonald
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• "With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay."
  By: James Russell Lowell
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• "What seem to us but dim funereal tapers may be heaven's distant lamps."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow."
  By: Walter Savage Landor
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• "Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good."
  By: Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)
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• "The truth is, when we are under any affliction we are generally troubled with a malicious kind of melancholy: we only dwell and pore upon the sad and dark occurrences of Providence, but never take notice of the more benign and bright ones. Our way in this world is like a walk under a row of trees, checkered with light and shade; and because we cannot all along walk in the sunshine, we therefore perversely fix only upon the darker passages, and so lose all the comfort of our comforts. We are like froward children who, if you take one of their playthings from them, throw away all the rest in spite."
  By: Bishop John Henry Hopkins
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• "Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening."
  By: George Herbert
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• "Afflictions are the medicine of the, mind. If they are not toothsome, let it suffice that they are wholesome. It is not required in physic that it should please, but heal."
  By: Bishop Joseph Henshaw
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• "Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse."
  By: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
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• "Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions."
  By: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
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• "Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."
  By: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
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• "What He tells thee in the darkness, Weary watcher for the day, Grateful lip and heart should utter When the shadows flee away."
  By: Frances R. Havergal
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• "It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies."
  By: Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge)
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• "We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us."
  By: Robert Hall
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• "As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn."
  By: Joseph Hall
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• "No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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