Afflictions
Afflictions are as needful as ordinances (1 Peter 1:6). No vessel can be made of gold without fire; so it is impossible that we should be made vessels of honour, unless we are melted and refined in the furnace of affliction. [ATFG]
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As the hard frosts in winter bring on the flowers in the spring, and as the night ushers in the morning-star, so the evils of affliction produce much good to those that love God. [ATFG]
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Every pious man ought to be far more concerned to derive benefit from afflictions, than to get rid of them. [JJTP]
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The purpose of God in afflicting his real people is to make them more useful, more humble, and in the end more glorious. [JJTP]
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None but God sees the end from the beginning. Whom he would bless he first puts to the test of patient waiting. If the righteous should see the happy issue of all that befalls them, as it lies open before God, their afflictions would be no trials. [JJTP]
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There is more malignity in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction, for sin is the cause of affliction, and the cause is more than the effect. [TDOR]
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If God brings us into the trial he will be with us in the trial, and at length bring us out, more refined. We shall lose nothing but dross. [TBR]
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The same God that led Moses into Midian can bring us out of any depths into which affliction may have cast us. [ROOS]
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God’s children are bruised reeds before their conversion and oftentimes after. [TBR]
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Let us not make much ado about our sufferings. Our Master fared far worse. If personal innocence and unswerving benevolence could screen any one, our Lord had never met a rebuff. [ROOS]