Affliction – Zitate

Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings.

— Geo. MacDonald

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.

— James Martineau

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

— Hannah More

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.

— W. S. Landor

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

— T. L. Cuyler

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind 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.

— Longfellow

  ​ Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

— Matthew Henry

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

— C. H. Spurgeon

Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene; Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.

— Young

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.

— C. H. Spurgeon

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

— Longfellow

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.

— Richard Cecil

The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

— C. H. Spurgeon

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

— P. J. Bailey

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

— Burgh

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.

— Rutherford

Seek holiness rather than consolation.

— John Owen

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

— A. K. H

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

— Alexander Maclaren

The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upward when they are most burdened.

— Sir Philip Sidney

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

— F. R. Havergal

As sure as God ever puts His children into the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.

— C. H. Spurgeon

  ​ 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.

— Phillips Brooks

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.

— Alexander Maclaren

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

— Richard Baxter

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.

— William Goodell