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.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

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.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

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.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.