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Quotations
On Affliction
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- God
sometimes washes the eyes
of his children with tears in order that they may read aright His
providence
and His commandments. —T.L.Cuyler.
- 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.—Phillips Brooks.
- Every
man
deems that he has
precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for
him
to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he
needs.—Richter.
- Affliction
is but the shadow
of God's wing.—George Macdonald.
Aromatic
plants bestow
No spicy
fragrance where
they grow;
But crushed
and trodden
to the ground,
Diffuse
their balmy sweets
around.
—Goldsmith.
- Affliction
appears to be the
guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance;
the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of
charity.—Author
Unknown
- Extraordinary
afflictions are
not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the
trial
of extraordinary graces.—Matthew Henry.
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- If you
would not have affliction
visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.—Burgh.
- Man is
born unto trouble, as
the sparks fly upward.—Job 5:7.
- Affliction
is the wholesome
soul of virtue; Where patience, honor, sweet humanity,Calm fortitude,
take
root, and strongly flourish.—Mallet and Thomson.
Affliction's sons
are brothers in distress;
A brother
to relieve,
how exquisite the bliss!
—Burns.
- With
the
wind of tribulation
God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the
corn.—Molinos.
- No
chastening for the present
seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth
the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised
thereby.—Hebrews
12:11.
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