Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
Thomas Brooks

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
George MacDonald

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Ibrahim Babangida

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Matthew Henry

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
William Arthur Ward

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.
Thomas Sydenham

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
George Washington

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
Berthold Auerbach

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
Matthew Henry

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon

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.
David Viscott

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
Robert Hall