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Afflictions are God's furnace, by which he cleanses his people from their dross. Affliction is a fire to purge out our dross, and to make virtue shine. Afflictions are medicines which heal soul diseases, better than all the remedies of physicians.Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
Make God your choice and not your necessity, and labor to maintain such constant converse with Him that when you die, you may change your place only but not your company.
By chastisement man is made more attentive unto God. In prosperity the world makes such a noise in a man's ears that God cannot be heard. "He speaks indeed once and twice" again and again very often, "yet man perceives it not." He is so busy in the crowd of worldly affairs that God is not heeded.
It is the great mistake and folly of men that they make more haste to get their afflictions removed than sanctified.
Behold I show you a mystery! Sin brought affliction into the world, and God makes affliction to carry sin out of the world.
The afflictions of the saints are not judgments, but corrections or trials; they are God's discipline to mortify sin or His means to discover grace and to prove our faith, love, patience, sincerity, and constancy. Well, then, behave thyself as one under trial; let nothing be discovered in thee but what is good and gracious.Exposition, Epistle of James, 6
We are sure of this, that God intends His church no hurt. True indeed, take a single affliction and it will seem to hurt... but view the whole frame, and you will see how one wheel turns about another (like the wheels of a watch), which (though they have cross and contrary motions) all conspire and work together for goodTemple Rebuilt, 15
Affliction is a gift of love even as faith is. It's grace as well to bleed for as to believe in Christ. It may be fair overhead when and while foul under foot. In a bad way a man may have good weather. A fair sky and a filthy way may consist. The shepherd may pipe, though the dog may bark. Build upon it, ye suffering saints!Sips of Sweetness, 150
Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.
God makes afflictions to be but inlets to the soul's more sweet and full enjoyment of his blessed self.Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
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