Quotes About Admonition

Preachers say: do as I say, not what I do

Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

And for all our sakes, tame that mess on top of your head. Use fire and a poleaxe if you have to.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you." My dad.

The finger descends, admonitory now. "You children today smirk and turn up your nose when I say old coats and old shoes. But what you don't know—and you better thank God you don't know—is that when you're cold, you'll take whatever coat you can get, and praise Jesus for it.

That's a yellow card for Cazoria. So the next time he's involved in Europe, he won't be.

Watch out!" warned Annie.

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

From afar they raise their voices like torches, and they cry out, as from some lofty and conspicuous watchtower, admonishing us where to walk and how to direct the course of our work steadily and safely.

As for the anonymous admonition about moderation and forbearance, how could the time for moderation be past? That would mean that reason is of no use to us. .

Dear friends, I warn you as "temporary residents and foreigners" to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. 1 PETER 2:11 NLT2

Perhaps the mere existence of things undone should be a sort of satisfaction in itself, though the idea would appear to be paradoxical. Only one who is long since dead while still seemingly alive does not have many "promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep," and that state of inertness is not to be desired. To the wise advice that we live every day as though it will be our last, we do well to add the admonition to live every day as though we will be on this earth forever.

I am your true Marxist critic, following Groucho rather than Karl, and take as my motto Groucho's grand admonition: Whatever it is, I'm against it!

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too.

My dad used to turn of the TV an scold me to study.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

This is none of your concern, goatman," Cloudwing warned.

I hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find it, and cheerfully surrender myself, and open my conquered arms as far off as I can discover it; and, provided it be not too imperiously, take a pleasure in being reproved, and accommodate myself to my accusers, very often more by reason of civility than amendment, loving to gratify and nourish the liberty of admonition by my facility of submitting to it, and this even at my own expense.

One more crash," he'd warned my dad, "and you're fired." The guy acting like

Get some rest," he advised. "You're going to have to get used to staying up late." He sent her a scoundrelly wink and slipped out of the room, pulling the door shut behind him.

Hebrews 12:10). This is why it is important to understand God's grace if we want to profit from admonition. God never rejects his children, and he always disciplines us in love. The better we understand this and the more we believe it, the easier it will be to interpret admonition as an act of love and profit from it instead of interpreting it as proof of rejection and reacting against it.

Dick" Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, "Got to 'scram