If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.

Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

The main recipients of injustice in any society are the afflicted the distressed and the troubled one, both in soul and in body.

Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force them to declare their basic loyalties; it will revive shepherds who shepherd rather than administrate, reverse the proportion of saints and scholars in favor of saints, create more reapers for the harvest, more pillars of fire for the lukewarm; it will make the rich see that real wealth is in the service of the needy; and, above all else, it will make the glory of Christ’s Cross shine out in a love of the brethren for one another as true and loyal sons of God.

Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.