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Quotes About Revile

If any one trusted your body to the first man he met, you would be indignant, but yet you trust your mind to the chance comer, and allow it to be disturbed and confounded if he revile you; are you not ashamed to do so?
~ Epictetus
There really is such a thing as racial sin, whether it is racial vainglory or racial animosity. Sin is always sin, and God always hates it. Racism as defined by God is wickedness. Those who make a pet idol out of their skin tone, or who revile others because of their skin tone are the kind of people who go to Hell. They will not inherit the kingdom (1 Cor. 6:9–10). Racism, understood biblically, is no bagatelle.
~ Douglas Wilson
Revilest thou God's high priest?
~ Anonymous
There's nothing, of course, more damaging and hurtful to the psyche than that—searching grimly for things to despise and revile in a person you once loved. You may destroy the beloved image but at the same time you destroy part of the basis of your self-respect, plus a whole vital chunk out of your past. Because, if he is hateful now, what aberration once caused you to waste so much love on him?
~ Lynne Reid Banks
Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as often ends The contests of disputing friends.
~ John Gay
Wherefore, whoever he be who deems himself happy because of license to revile, he would be far happier if that were not allowed him at all; for he might all the while, laying aside empty boast, be contradicting those to whose views he is opposed by way of free consultation with them, and be listening, as it becomes him, honorably, gravely, candidly, to all that can be adduced by those whom he consults by friendly disputation.
~ St. Augustine
They loved and reviled Hitler like no other twentieth-century politician.
~ Unknown
To revile because one has been reviled—this is the real evil because it is the evil of the soul itself." Jesus saw this with almighty clarity. Again and again he came back to the inner life of the individual.
~ Howard Thurman
To revile because one has been reviled—this is the real evil because it is the evil of the soul itself.
~ Howard Thurman
at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
~ Psalm 44:16
at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.
~ Psalm 55:3
How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
~ Psalm 74:10