| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Franklin | To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. |
| Book of Common Prayer | Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate. |
| Charles Hadden Spurgeon | The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon, |
| Chinese Proverb | The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. |
| Claudian | The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. |
| Demetrius Phalerens | No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction |
| Edward Young | Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. |
| Felicia D Hemans | Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. |
| H G Wells | Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. |
| Helen Keller | I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. |
| John Brown | Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour, Serves but to brighten our future days! |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! |
| John Powell | By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go. |
| John Tillotson | Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. |
| John Tillotson | Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. |
| Max Beerbohm | I know of 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. |
| Robert Burns | Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! |
| Robert Southey | Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves. |
| Rosalind Russell | When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. |
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