"Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation."

"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as " in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."

"The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be any thing but a cup of salvation?"

"Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings."

"What seem to us but dim funereal tapers may be heaven's distant lamps."

"Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Rehind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, — Some days must be dark and dreary."

"The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow."

"It is the best thing for a stricken heart to be helping others."

"What He tells thee in the darkness, Weary watcher for the day, Grateful lip and heart should utter When the shadows flee away."

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

"However bitter the cup we have to drink, we are sure it contains nothing unnecessary or unkind; and we should take it from His hand with as much meekness as we accept of eternal life with thankfulness."

"God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments."

"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."

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

"Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house."

"The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best strength, that he may be able to bear the burden."

"Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before."

"Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths."

"Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man."

"With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!"

"Quæ regio in terris nostri non plena laboris."

"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."

"Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves."

"Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity."

"Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead."

"Henceforth I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, Enough, enough, and die."

"Crede mihi, miseris cœlestia numina parcunt; Nec semper læsos, et sine fine, premunt."

"Damna minus consueta movent."

"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"

"Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate."

"The love of these things that are outside visible Christianity keeps me outside the Church... But it also seems to me that when one speaks to you of unbelievers who are in affliction and accept their affliction as a part of the order of the world, it does not impress you in the same way as if it were a question of Christians and of submission to the will of God. Yet it is the same thing."

"There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies."

"Cum in omni fere litterarum studio dulce laboris lenimen et summum doloris solamen dum uiuitur insitum considerem, tum delectabilius et maioris praerogatiua claritatis historiarum splendorem amplectendum crediderim."

"Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,— That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days."

"AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world."

"There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen."

"An English wit has well said that affectation displeases us because it has not too much, but too little, art."

"No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind."

"Affectation hides three times as many virtues as Charity does sins."

"Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural."

"All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich."

"Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine."

"How full of briers is this working-day world!"

"Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience."

"In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one."

"God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition."

"Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than the ears."

"In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends."

"A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure."

"Then know, that I have little wealth to lose; A man I am cross'd with adversity."