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• God’s arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won’t let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

  Charles Stanley

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  Tags in Affliction, Robs

• Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

  Robert Southey

  Topics in God, Love

  Tags in Good, Affliction, Young

• 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.

  David Viscott

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  Tags in Good, Affliction

• Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

  Francis Atterbury

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in School, Affliction

• Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

  George Washington

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  Tags in Heart, Affliction

• No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

  Fay Weldon

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  Tags in Happy, Affliction

• Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in God

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• Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father’s house.

  Thomas Brooks

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• When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.

  Samuel Rutherford

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• Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God’s ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

  Christopher Love

  Topics in God

  Tags in Measure, Affliction

• Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

  Blaise Pascal

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  Tags in Morality, Affliction, Ignorance

• The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

  Charles Spurgeon

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  Tags in Affliction, Trials, Soldiers

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  Arthur Helps

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• Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

  Joseph Addison

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  Tags in Affliction, Prosperity, Virtue

• I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

  William Banting

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  Tags in Affliction, Fellow-Men, Advisable, Profit

• The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

  Abu Bakr

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• Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

  Robert Burns

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• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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• If I didn’t have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient’s own arrangement, which only he can change.

  Alfred Adler

  Tags in Affliction

• Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay

  Charles Caleb Colton

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