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
Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes 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
I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 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
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
Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it! — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to “re-turn” toward… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility,… — Richard Sibbes 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
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
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
The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not… — Isaac of Nineveh 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
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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