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
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
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
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
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
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all… — Plato Copy Share Image
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the… — Hosea Ballou 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
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
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
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
“I exhort you only to one thing, that you rise up for Allah's sake by twos and simply; then ponder! There is… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if… — William Whately Copy Share Image
Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in… — John Bunyan 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
As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement… — Thomas Watson 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
[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take. — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter 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
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
There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the… — John Flavel 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
We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would… — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
“Lochner is not a good man and will not be brought to repentance whether by the word of the Lord or physical… — Johann Martin Boltzius 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
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
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
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
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