Reproach Quotes

126 Reproach quotes by 108 unique authors

The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians,… — Edward Everett
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve… — Robert Browning
I am constantly concerned about being quoted in the press and perhaps saying the wrong thing or having what I say misinterpreted and bringing reproach to the… — Billy Graham
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was… — Unknown Author
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to… — John Stott
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I… — Khalil Gibran
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the… — William Laud
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have… — Eliza Farnham
One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things… — Mordecai Ham
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of… — Eric Temple Bell
'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them. — Thomas Huxley
If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble,… — Rosa Parks
Our Father awaits us with great zeal and desire, and with love He will see us returning from afar, and He will look upon us… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account;… — Amy Carmichael
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title! — William Blake
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. — Samuel Johnson
Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into… — John Bunyan
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of… — Demosthenes
The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they… — Fulton J. Sheen
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We… — Benjamin Franklin
Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach. — William Wordsworth
To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions… — Samuel Johnson

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