As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. (Quote by - Bible)

They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever. (Quote by - Lucinda Franks)

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; / Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: / Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help. (Quote by - Bible)

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

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. Affliction. (Quote by - John Tillotson)

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; / Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. (Quote by - Bible)

And they thought that there would be no affliction, so they became blind and deaf; then Allah turned to them mercifully, but many of them became blind and deaf; and Allah is well seeing what they do. (Quote by - quran)

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: / And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. (Quote by - Bible)

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. (Quote by - Bible)

And whatever affliction befalls you, it is on account of what your hands have wrought, and (yet) He pardons most of your faults. (Quote by - quran)

Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. (Quote by - Bible)

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, 'I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction'. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)

And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head. (Quote by - Bible)

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. (Quote by - Bible)

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. (Quote by - Bible)

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour, Serves but to brighten our future days! (Quote by - John Brown 1)

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. (Quote by - Bible)

And when affliction touches a man, he calls on Us, whether lying on his side or sitting or standing; but when We remove his affliction from him, he passes on as though he had never called on Us on account of an affliction that touched him; thus that which they do is made fair-seeming to the extravagant. (Quote by - quran)

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, - Some days must be dark and dreary. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? / Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? / Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. (Quote by - Bible)

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)