Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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.
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.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
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