Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions..

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library..

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches..

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright..

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate..

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare..

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn..

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it..

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of..

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, i….

Afflictions are the steps to heaven..

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him..

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them..

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed..