“The furnace of affliction”

“The furnace of affliction” April 3, 2016

 

Bradstreet memorial at Harvard
A memorial plaque at Harvard University (Wikimedia Commons)

 

“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, Puritan poet and writer

 


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