“Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.”
William Blake
“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”
Cardinal Richelieu
“Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.”
Simone Weil
“Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.”
George MacDonald
