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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
Sin carries in it its own misery.
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
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.
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.