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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii) The great, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest heart, like the palm-tree, to strive most upward when it is most burdened. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. - Bishop Robert South Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. - Thomas Southerne (Southern) There is healing in the bitter cup. - Robert Southey Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves. - Robert Southey, Madoc in Wales (III, l. 176) Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon As sure as God ever puts His children into the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings Among the Sheaves--Sorrow's Disciple Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. - Laurence Sterne That which thou dost not understand when thou readest, thou shaft understand in the day of thy visitation; for many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity. - Jeremy Taylor 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 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. - Unknown What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (I, 460) Perfumes, the more they are chafed, the more they render their pleasant scents; and so affliction expresseth virtue fully. - John Webster With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! - John Greenleaf Whittier, To my Friend on the Death of his Sister Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene; Resumes them, to prepare us for the next. - Edward Young Thy pleasure points the shaft, and bends the bow; The cluster lasts, or bids it brightly glow. - Edward Young Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 415) Displaying page 4 of 4 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 [4]
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