Quotes about Affliction

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

For the more we are afflicted by adversities, the more surely our fellowship with Christ is confirmed!

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

This is the bread of affliction which our forefathers ate in the land of Egypt. Let all those who are hungry come and eat with us. Let all those who are in need come and share our meal. This year we are here. Next year may we all be in the land of Israel.

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God's.