A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
苦难
Affliction
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
愿你心里怜悯众人的困苦窘迫。愿你的手按着你的资财按比例分给他们。
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
虽然所有的痛苦本身都是邪恶的，但它们对我们是有益的，因为它们发现了我们的疾病，并帮助我们治愈。
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
不要倒在你想要的安慰上，倒在你所拥有的怜悯上。宁可看神使你受苦的结局，也不要看你受苦难的程度。
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
上天所赐的苦难，使高尚的人坚贞不屈，却使卑贱的人顽固不化，正如熔化黄金的熔炉，使粘土变硬一样
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
虚荣的科学。物理科学的知识不会因为我在苦难时期对道德的无知而安慰我，但道德知识将永远因为我对物理科学的无知而安慰我。
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.
神的痛苦之箭是锐利而痛苦的，所以他能引起我们的注意。他不会让他心爱的孩子逃脱罪的惩罚，因为他知道罪夺走了我们的祝福、机会，甚至是人格的优雅。
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When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
我在患难的地窖里，寻求耶和华佳美的酒。
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
少年人哪，苦难不是徒然从那良善的神那里来的。
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
痛苦不过是进入我们父家的黑暗入口。
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
没有人能比一个从未经历过痛苦的人更幸福。
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
力量是从长期受苦的心的深沉的沉默中产生的;不是在快乐。
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
患难临到我们，不是要叫我们忧愁，乃是要叫我们清醒。不是让我们后悔，而是让我们明智。