Quotes by Affliction Your mercies are more than your afflictions. Jeremiah Burroughs affliction mercy One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world. Jeremiah Burroughs affliction heaven world You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last, he was better for an affliction. But, a great many Godly men have been worse for their prosperity. Jeremiah Burroughs affliction godly men Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! Jeremiah Burroughs affliction evil men Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction. Jeri Smith-Ready affliction ignorance world I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. Jessye Norman spells affliction particular Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive. Jo Coudert affliction serious heart Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. John Angell James affliction grace world Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. John Bevere tested silver affliction Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. John Bunyan affliction trials may There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy. John Calvin affliction ought joy Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul. John Flavel affliction soul suffering The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. John Flavel affliction grace christian Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God. John Donne affliction treasure men The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith John Calvin affliction quality fire By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. John Newton affliction prayer ease Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions. John Muir affliction woods green Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. John Owen affliction darkness religious 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 gratitude evil Calamity is man's true touchstone. John William Fletcher negativity affliction men «123456789»