Quotes About Correction

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

If you are wrong be humble and brave enough to take full responsibility of it with wise enough to correct it.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, he is committing another mistake.

Positive corrective approach to wrong done has positive affect on self empowerment.

Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect, I'll have hell to pay.

Mirar los errores pasados con compasión no significa ser permisivo con ellos, sino ver en ciertas actuaciones nuestra ignorancia y no nuestra maldad. Quien ve ignorancia tras un error busca la corrección; quien ve maldad busca el castigo.

Timothy Keller makes the point well: Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom. (Keller, Walking with God, 47)

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

If you want to be saved and be a Christian, then stay open to correction. Preachers have to rebuke, or they should leave their position. The Christian who won't accept correction is only pretending to be a Christian.

Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw that Peter's error would lead to the damage of the whole Church unless it were corrected. Therefore he withstood Peter to his face. The Church, Peter, the apostles, angels from heaven, are not to be heard unless they teach the genuine Word of God.

This is the work and skill of God, to correct and emend what had been ruined by Jacob's error. He can make evil matters good when we have spoiled and harmed matters.

Mothers always knew what was best for their children, and it was a mother's duty to steer the child back onto the right track, especially if said child had gone astray—

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Perfectionism is burdensome and self-defeating. Accepting imperfection in yourself frees you (and perhaps your child) from the burden of unrealistic expectations. No parent is perfect, and your best is good enough. If you have made a mistake, in almost all cases it can be corrected.

It was hard not to compare Mrs Elm to her mother, who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction.

who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction.

When God corrects us or ours for sin, it is our duty to be silent under the correction

An automatic guidance system corrects its course from negative feedback data. It acknowledges errors in order to correct them and stay on course. So must you. Admit your mistakes and errors, but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward. In dealing with other people, try to see the situation from their point of view as well as your own.