Reproof Quotes (8 quotes)

“Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: apologetics, arrogance, bad-news, bluntness, bravery, careful, caring, cautious, compassion, considerate, courage, criticism, discernment, effectiveness, ego, emotion, empathy, feeling, force, friendliness, gentleness, gospel, grace, harshness, hilt, honesty, honor, humility, hurt, inconsiderate, injury, injustice, insensitive, judgment, justice, karma, kindness, love, mercy, nice, nobility, pain, painful-truths, passion, patience, peace, pity, pride, purpose, reap, reap-what-you-sow, reason, rebuke, reproof, sacrifice, sacrificial-love, self-sacrifice, selfishness, selflessness, sensitive, sobriety, sow, sword, sword-of-truth, sympathy, tenderness, truth, wisdom

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“Reproving others is a thankless office and an unwelcome work for the most part; men take reproofs for reproaches, yet since God has laid it on good men as their duty to rebuke and not suffer sin to lie upon their brother, they dare not omit it.”
― Ralph Venning, The Sinfulness of Sin

tags: christianity, discipleship, reproof

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“In addition to voluntary suffering, you must also accept that which comes against your will - I mean slander, material losses and sickness. For if you do not accept these but rebel against them, you are like someone who wants to eat his bread only with honey, never with salt. Such a man does not always have pleasure as his companion, but always has nausea as his neighbor.”
― Ilias the Presbyter

tags: endurance, patience, reproof, slander, suffering

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“There is a period in the relations of children with any new grown-up in charge of them, the period between first acquaintance and the first reproof, which can only be compared to the primordial innocence of Eden. Once a reproof has been administered, this can never be recovered again.”
― Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica

tags: adults, children, grown-ups, relationships, reproof

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“Über den Tadel sind viele erhaben; wenige über das Lob.”
― Carl Gustav Jochmann, Die unzeitige Wahrheit. Aphorismen. Glossen

tags: praise, reproof

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“Reproof should lead a man into repentence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: christian, inspiring, motivational, religious-faith, repentence, reproof

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“Whoever listens to correction , obey the commands to repent of every evil done.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita