Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
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.
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.
The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.
A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.