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- Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman
- Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the… — P.G. Wodehouse
- Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement. — Hannah Whitall Smith
- Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening. — Frank Moore Colby
- We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears.… — Oswald Chambers
- If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness… — Helen Keller
- My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to… — Charles Spurgeon
- The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and… — Horace Greeley
- Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art. — Robert Burchfield
- Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the… — Oswald Chambers
- Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening — George Herbert
- It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln