Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die..

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction..

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..

It is good for me that I have been afflicted..

Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it.

The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us..

You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last,….

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 g….

Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent….

The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before ….

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time..

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never..

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

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften..

The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after remov….

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills tha….

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction..

Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction..

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome..

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future..

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard..