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— Francis Atterbury"Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning."
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
— Washington Irving
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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.
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