Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

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.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.