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
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
Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord. — Walter Cradock Copy Share Image
God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven? — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks. — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take. — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as… — Richard Baxter 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
Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The torments of hell abide for ever… If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let's stop all of this foolishness and come together as a people or we will deserve the chastisement of God that is… — Louis Farrakhan 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
Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they… — Joseph Hall 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
“Chastisement leads to the acceptance of God’s will. [. . .] Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God’s Son. The will of… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“To be granite and to doubt! To be the statue of Chastisement cast in one piece in the mould of the law,… — Victor Hugo 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
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 man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before… — Saint Patrick 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
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
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
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
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have… — Vavasor Powell 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
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