Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

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

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

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

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

Songwriting is my gift from God.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Humanity is the sin of God.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.