The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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.
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.