 Sanctified afflictions are like so many artificers working on a pious man's crown to make it more bright and massive.
- Ralph Cudworth Author: Assorted Authors |
| God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. Author: Richard Cecil |
| When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. Author: Samuel Rutherford |
| God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty. Author: Stephen Charnock |
| Afflictions are but conductors to immortal life and glory. Author: James H. Aughey |
| As every mercy is a drop obtained from the ocean of God's goodness, so every affliction is a drachm weighed out in the wisdom of God's providence. Author: James H. Aughey |
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| Hope is the last lingering light of the human heart. It shines when every other is put out. Extinguish it, and the gloom of affliction becomes the very blackness of darkness - cheerless and impenetrable. Author: James H. Aughey |
| It is not affliction itself, but affliction rightly borne, that does us good. Author: James H. Aughey |
| The wisdom of God appears in afflictions. By these He separates the sin which He hates, from the son whom He loves. By these thorns He keeps him from breaking over into Satan's pleasant pastures, which would fatten him indeed, but only to the slaughter. Author: James H. Aughey |
| Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. Author: Thomas Brooks |
| What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin. Author: Thomas Watson |
| Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well. Author: Watchman Nee |
