If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word."

Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

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.

To bear other people's afflictions, every one has courage and enough to spare.

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

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

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.