Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
James A. Baldwin
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
John Donne
Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.
Ann McLane Kuster
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
Kenneth Oppel
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
Samuel Rutherford
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Fay Weldon
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell Bovee