If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used… — Angela Merici Copy Share Image
“Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” (Matt. 16:22 NIV)” — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“Look, it’s very nice of you—and I appreciate it. But don’t.” His rebuke told me he wasn’t going to play my game.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
SomeTimes We May Be Fighting The ªTruth ¬Unknowingly, Before You Make Any assumption Or Conclusion, Try Think every Situation/Rebuke From The Other… — Cosmas Sila Copy Share Image
“On many occasions animals are not so much trying to hurt us as giving us a mere rebuke or warning. The trouble… — Lee H. Whittlesey Copy Share Image
Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin,… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
“Interpreting criticism as a subjective opinion with a solution instead of a personal rebuke will help you grow, build better relationships, become… — Dr.Prem jagyasi Copy Share Image
Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke.… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
We need to stop comparing ourselves to others, and stop patting ourselves on the back for attaining artificial measurements of spirituality. We… — Dan Schilling Copy Share Image
If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
“If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“If you have any compassion, then do not rebuke anyone in trying to improve them. He will surely meet someone who will… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But I will rebuke you and… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour. — William Penn Copy Share Image
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“But Olwë answered: ‘We renounce no friendship. But it may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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