Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
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.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
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.
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.