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

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

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

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

Of all created comforts God is the lender you are the borrower not the owner.

It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.

To believe Christs cross to be a friend as he himself is a friend is also a special act of faith.

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self and far from the love of a sinful world.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

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.