Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene;
Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
What seem to us but dim funereal tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.
The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
