Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.

God is reciprocally responding to the cry of the afflicted.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

To bear other people's afflictions, every one has courage and enough to spare.

Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

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

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

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

Afflictions clarify the soul.

...in their affliction they will seek me early.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us worry, but wise ... It is a trial that proves one thing weak and another strong ... A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is no strain upon it.

The wisdom of God appears in afflictions. By these He separates the sin which He hates, from the son whom He loves. By these thorns He keeps him from breaking over into Satan's pleasant pastures, which fatten him indeed, but only to the slaughter.

It is not affliction itself, but affliction rightly borne, that does us good.

Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.

God measures out affliction to our need.