Quotes About Admonition

it is a thing much more worthy of admiration and praise to receive admonition meekly, than to admonish a transgressor boldly.

My dad told me, 'Whatever you do, don't dance. Do something else. Do anything else.' He knew how much hard work you have to put in, how hard it is to make a living, and he didn't want me to do it.

Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

When Grant read this, he was outraged at the shocking suggestion that he had subverted justice. He handed the letter to Bristow with a passionate admonition scrawled across it: "Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided—Be specially vigilant—or instruct those engaged in the prosecutions of fraud to be—against all who insinuate that they have high influence . . . to protect them.

Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!" "Hold your tongue

The Old Testament is not the words of an angry God; rather, it is the admonition of a loving Father who wanted his children to live life at their best. Jesus didn't change God's mind in the New Testament. Jesus came to reveal the Father's heart.

John Adams told him. "And if you do not rise . . . to the head of your country, it will be owing to your own Laziness, Slovenliness, and Obstinancy." 65

The next time she scolded me, I said if I cleaned the table any more I would take the color out of the wood and Miss Kizer snapped back, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness and don't you forget it.

ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO FEMALES UNDER NINE THAT HAIR RIBBONS ARE TO BE NEATLY TIED AT ALL TIMES.

O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.

gentle admonition." "Gentle admonition! Do you call that gentle admonition? Why, uncle, you are enough to frighten most people to death with your fury. You are a perfect dragon! a griffin! a Russian bear! a Bengal tiger! a Numidian lion! You're all Barnum's beasts in one! I declare, if I don't write and ask him to send a party down here to catch you for his museum!

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Each project ship must maintain its coefficient of frustration," went the private admonition. "Frustration must come from both human and mechanical sources." They

Rather, it is a warning to avoid turning inspiration into fetish and tradition into dogma; it is an admonition to never reduce the spiritual realm to the narrow borders of your own perceptions, prejudices, and ideals.

Note accordingly that in all countries the penalties for petty theft are extremely severe, not only as a means of defending society, but also as a stern admonition to the unfortunate to know their place, stick to their caste, and behave themselves, joyfully resigned to go on dying of hunger and misery down through the centuries forever and ever . . .

Parents owed their children admonition and discipline, not expressive sentiment.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

Wat zei ik nou? Als je nog een keer water over me heen slaat dan gooi ik je overboord! Voorzichtig! Niet te wild!' - Alyss Zo praat je eigenlijk niet tegen de kroonprinses van Araluen, schoot door Evanlyn heen.

Observing our faults in others, is sometimes improper for our case. But the best receipt (best, I say, to work, and best to take) is the admonition of a friend.

Dad always said don't take it personally. Dad told you that because it was what you needed to hear. Dad always told me if a bird flies over you and shits on your shoulder, take it personally.

When the King and His kingdom are the focus, the church happens. When the church is the focus, the King and His kingdom get relegated to second place. Jesus' admonition to seek first the kingdom is central to what it means to build kingdom churches.

Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.