Quotes About Affliction

A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

When afflicted, love can allow thee to groan, but not to grumble.

We are to choose affliction rather than sin, yea, the greatest affliction before the least sin. Moses

Mercies should draw, afflictions drive.

Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "The rejoicing of hope." - William Gurnall

An impatient soul in affliction is a bedlam in chains,

But 'the patience of hope,' we are now treating of, is a sober grace, and abides as long as hope lasts; when hope is lively and active, then it floats, yea even danceth aloft the waters of affliction, as a tight sound ship doth in a tempestuous sea; but when hope springs a leak, then the billows break into the Christian's bosom, and he sinks apace, till hope, with much labour at the pump of the promise, clears the soul again.

It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.

Slave-trading seems to have been coeval with the knowledge of iron. The monuments of Egypt show that this curse has venerable antiquity. Some people say, "If so ancient, why try to stop an old established usage now?" Well, some believe that the affliction that befel the most ancient of all the patriarchs, Job, was small-pox. Why then stop the ravages of this venerable disease in London and New York by vaccination?

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.