Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall. — Ouida Copy Share Image
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of… — Ezekiel Hopkins Copy Share Image
We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . . — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
And nothing prevents men from believing when the guidance comes to them, and from asking forgiveness of their Lord, except that what… — Quran Copy Share Image
It is no small advantage to the holy life, to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their… — Thomas Case Copy Share Image
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their… — Thomas Case Copy Share Image
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams;… — John Owen Copy Share Image
When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
He that loves the world, how active is he! He will break his peace and sleep for it. He that loves honour,… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are.… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4).… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God… — John Owen Copy Share Image
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