"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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By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

— J. C. Ryle