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Quotes About Admonish

The devil rebukes sin
~ Proverb
I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
~ Bradley Whitford
The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.
~ Richard Corliss
His water brother could teach, admonish, guide—but choice at cusp was not shared. Here was "ownership" beyond sale, gift, hypothecation; owner and owned grokked inseparable. He eternally was the action he had taken at cusp. Now that he knew himself
~ Robert A. Heinlein
To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them.
~ Epictetus
I warned him many times. I warned him in words, in deed and in every possible way.
~ Ron Chernow
If some of us can get an Oscar for extolling that it's hard out there for a pimp, why can't others of us admonish: 'Then quit acting like a pimp'?
~ John Ridley
Whenever the circulation of such a paper begins to slacken, the proprietors should, as a matter of course, admonish their Alf to add a little power to the crushing department.
~ Anthony Trollope
My name is Chief Animae Cibus, I come from the Anasazi, a name meaning, alien ancestors and basket weavers. We walked this earth and these lands for a very long time. I have not come to harm you, I have come to admonish you." Instinctively
~ John V. Panella
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
~ Bible, Colossians 3:16
It's really great when you can admonish a lawmaker, but at the same time, get them to talk about the process of making government more transparent, then that's great.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
advertir a alguien de un comportamiento ridículo no es una excusa para ello.
~ Sylvia Day
And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the Phædon instead of Bowditch in his head. Beware of such an one, I say: your whales must be seen before they can be killed...
~ Herman Melville
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
~ Al-Shafi'i
I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.
~ William Shakespeare
Listen, the road seems to admonish. Listen. I have stories. I close my eyes, and I hear voices. Thousands whispering all at once. I can't make out any single one, but I know they're here. What do they have to say?
~ Unknown
At times one hesitates to reprove or admonish evil-doers, either because one seeks a more favorable moment or fears his rebuke might make them worse, and further, discourage weak brethren from seeking to lead a good and holy life, or turn them aside from the faith. In such circumstances forbearance is not prompted by selfish considerations but by well advised charity.
~ Augustine
God does not command what cannot be done, but admonishes us to do what is in our power, and to pray for what is not.
~ Matthew Henry
We are called to have Scripture so deeply engrained in our lives that we are wise and thankful, and thus always ready to teach and admonish (confront) one another.
~ Paul David Tripp
And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
~ 1 Thessalonians 5:14