Quotes About The Furnace Of Affliction

#1. Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.

Billy Graham

#2. The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

John Adams

#3. The furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes ...

John Geddes

#4. Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Anne Bradstreet

#5. The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. God is too great to be glorified only through the lives of His victorious children. He is glorified by our suffering and even by our sin. His sustaining strength is glorified when we walk through the furnace of affliction.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#7. 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.

Richard Cecil

#8. In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

Pierre Bayle

#10. As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

John Bevere

#12. One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through the furnace of affliction.

Timothy Keller

#13. Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

Richard Cecil

#14. Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Charles Caleb Colton