Affliction Quotes

• "Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house."
  By: Thomas Brooks
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• "The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in heaven before unfelt."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate."
  By: Book of Common Prayer, Prayer for all Conditions of Men
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• "How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt!"
  By: Hugh Blair
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• "There will be no Christian but what will have a Gethsemane, but every praying Christian will find that there is no Gethsemane without its angel!"
  By: Thomas Binney
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• "Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward."
  By: Bible, Job (ch. V, v. 7)
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• "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."
  By: Bible, Hebrews (ch. XII, v. 11)
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• "In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp."
  By: Pierre Bayle
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• "Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before."
  By: Richard Baxter
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• "As threshing separates the corn from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
  By: Francis Bacon
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• "Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning."
  By: Francis Atterbury
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• "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."
  By: ^Bovee Christian Nevell
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• "No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction"
  By: ^Bovee Christian Nevell
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• "Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."
  By: ^Bovee Christian Nevell
  Affliction Quotes