The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
– Charles Spurgeon
