Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma.
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction.
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!