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«Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.»
«God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction»
«Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; / How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.»
«Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt: / And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.»
«Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: affliction, look upon, sins
«My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.»
«For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abundantly, affliction, anguish, grieved
«If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.»
«Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief»
«Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.»

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