“Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”
Finley Peter Dunne
“Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.”
Christopher Love
“This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.”
Bible
“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
“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
