Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
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.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
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.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.