Quotes about Affliction

For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

Nevertheless, you have done well to share in my affliction.

That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.

After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.

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

The outward man is perishing; the inward man is being renewed daily. •?The light affliction is today's problems; the eternal glory is tomorrow's promise. The things that are seen are temporary; the things that are not seen are eternal.

On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Remember in the midst of your most grievous afflictions that the worst state of a believer is better than the best state of an unbeliever.