God never wastes pain.
~Jerry Bridges
It’s a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
~Madeleine L’Engle
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father’s hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you.
~Robert Murray McCheyne
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
~C.H. Spurgeon
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
~John Bunyan
The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand times less than we deserve, and much less than many of our fellow-creatures are suffering around us. Let us therefore pray for grace to be humble, thankful, and patient.
~John Newton
Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
~Richard Sibbes
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.
~Samuel Rutherford
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.
~Anne Bradstreet
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world – and to fix our affections on things above.
~John Angell James
These quotes are great! I’m going to pass them on to a friend for encouragement.