Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
