Quotes About Admonition

The others were led to it by admonition and example, by the need to prove hardness, after a while by indifference.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'—the Americans understand this admonition, deep in their killer-souls.

Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex's admonition, against Allen's angry assertion: another African amusement... anyhow, as all argued, an awesome African army assembled and arduously advanced against an African anthill, assiduously annihilating ant after ant, and afterward, Alex astonishingly accuses Albert as also accepting Africa's antipodal ant annexation.

In Brueghel's hands, Ovid's tale of a son's willful rejection of his father's wisdom becomes a story about the need for a kind of humility—for, you might say, perspective; an admonition about what we miss when we are intent on our own narratives, about the dangers of mistaking the foreground for the whole picture.

Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.

others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did then when I was there on my second visit,

Herein fail not at your peril.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

The initial aim of Jesus was to preach repentance from sin and its forgiveness; at heart this was an admonition for men to shift the basis of their life from being self-centered to God-centered, from being their own men and women to being God's men and women.

Consequently, as an admonition to all, he named this youngest boy States Rights Gist.

If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.

God warns before he wounds.

His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land or sea, and illustrating his instruction or his admonition with the quaintest phraseology.

The simple justification for the elders and their work was Christ's detailed prescription in Matthew's Gospel for how Christians should deal with sinners among the faithful: first private admonition, then progressively more formal reprimands, and finally, if repentance was not forthcoming, expulsion from the community.

Any nation which claims that this [North Atlantic] treaty is directed against it should be reminded of the Biblical admonition that 'The guilty flee when no man pursueth.

T'Pol." Archer made his voice sting with command. "You're coming dangerously close to violating a rule of the bridge. Don't nag the captain.

The word of God is a testimony of warning.

One of these norms says that Christians must not talk negatively to other people about those who are not in the group. Instead, they are instructed to speak privately about their differences to these individuals themselves. Matthew 18:15-17 is quite clear on the point.33

My admonition is, 'No counterterrorism lead goes uncovered.'

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

Just because we live in Vanity Fair, does not mean we have to look like Vanity Fair to warn the lovers of Vanity Fair to forsake Vanity Fair. Motives

You have no right to tell me-" "You do not want to finish that sentence, missy. You want to sit down, close your mouth, and eat." "How am I supposed to eat with my mouth closed?

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.