Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- John Bunyan, (Nov 28 1628-1688), English clergyman, author; He was the author of the allegory Pilgrim's Progress, 1678, which he wrote while in prison.