Quotes About Rebuke

Then he defined patriotism: "The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.

The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

I get criticized for anything I do.

Stop it, you SILLY ass!

heard enough. I berated them for gossiping

You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation.

What is not to love about a guy who pulled children onto His lap and saved a failing party and touched the untouchables and told off the religious elite?

disapproving

Don't throw my words back in my face, you little baggage.

When I answered that I did not pray, he sternly rebuked me. "You're in Hell. You'd better start".

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gipsy obscenity? What are you doing?

I'm not averse to telling people off.

Blast your soul, you hussy!" he exclaimed in exasperation.

Had he not been unfairly implicated, Rockefeller might have enjoyed the rebuke delivered to Rogers.

You guys take over while I go put on a shirt. Mrs. Kulavich had edged close enough to hear him. She beamed at him. Don't bother on my account, she said. Sadie! Mr. Kulavich said in rebuke. Oh, hush, George! I'm old, not dead! I'll remind you of that the next time I want to watch the Playboy Channel, he growled.

As Christ teaches us the nature of abiding, we see that He is not contrasting abiding with not abiding. The contrast is rather between abiding temporarily and abiding permanently. In this fallen world, apostasy, church discipline, fruitlessness, rebuke, and scandal are to be expected. The house of Christ still has slaves and sons, and we should not be surprised when the differences between them become manifest.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

When I wallow in something dead to reawaken the savor of it, you rebuke me.

It was easier to try for your sakes than my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

En général, on ne demande de conseils, disait-il, que pour ne les pas suivre; ou, si on les a suivis, que pour avoir quelqu'un à qui l'on puisse faire le reproche de les avoir donnés.»

His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them. In