May the Lord comfort the afflicted souls.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.

— Criss Jami

Start with a cry, end with a smile.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.

— Sunday Adelaja

The affliction in the flesh of soul is temporal compare to the eternal glory of the spirit.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere. No matter where you may go, you cannot escape it, for wherever you go you take yourself with you and shall always find yourself. Turn where you will—above, below, without, or within—you will find a cross in everything, and everywhere you must have patience if you would have peace within and merit an eternal crown.

— Thomas à Kempis

The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.

— Thomas Carlyle

The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon