Quotes about Affliction

that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.

You do not find one godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it; though for a while he was shaken, yet at last he was better for an affliction. But a great many godly men, you find, have been worse for their prosperity.

If any adversity coming across our path were not beneficial, God would not allow it or send it: "He does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone" (Lamentations 3:33, NIV). God does not delight in our suffering. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

As Lamentations 3:33 states, "For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men."

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

My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground … . I remember my affliction … the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.1

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

Feed him [Micajah] with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God.

We commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.

For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, long-suffering, and very pitiful, and forgiveth sins, and saveth in time of affliction.