“In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly physicians in sigh, I too say, Trust Jesus. Let Him still the tempest and ride upon the storm. Believe that He can lift mankind from its bed of affliction, in time and in eternity.” WorldBelieveStillsSeemsHumanityJesusSinMankindSorrowBedDespairEternityStormLiftsPhysiciansAfflictionWorldlySighDiscouragementTempest Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.” AbleWealthPovertyBalanceOppositesWeightEternityProsperityScalesAfflictionWealth And Poverty Author:Joseph Addison
“Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.” MenEnoughCertainSecretImagineSpringGloryEternityPressurePressesTreasureSufficientAfflictionExterior Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.” GivingMaySufferingTurnsFatherCausesSupportStrengthBearsBlessingPerfectionEternityTrialsHeavenlyAfflictionHeavenly FatherRefinement Author:Delbert L. Stapley
“For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.” EvilMoralityShadowAll ThingsEternityCloudsPassingPassingsGood And EvilAfflictionDampBaptizedInterveningFontsBeyond Good And Evil Author:Friedrich Nietzsche