The humble soul seeks more how to glorify God in afflictions, than how to get out of them.
— Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)
Mercies and Afflictions
Compare thy mercies and afflictions together. Have not mercies flowed in upon thee like a flood, whereas afflictions have fallen upon thee but like drops? For one affliction, thou hast had an hundred mercies.
— Samuel Cradock (1621?–1706)
Knowledge and Practice
Suffering and Persecution
God has not promised to keep His people from afflictions, but to keep them from the hurt of them.
— Edmund Calamy
Affliction
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.
— C. H. Spurgeon
Affliction
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
— Richard Sibbes
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