Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
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.
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.
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.
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in 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.
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.