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Quotes About Rebuke

Miserable comforters are ye all.
~ Anonymous
Open rebuke is better than secret love.Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
~ Anonymous
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
~ Paul Farmer
Shh," she said sternly, as if Luc had been the one who'd just let out the caterwaul.
~ Lynsay Sands
ADMONITION  (ADMONI'TION)   n.s.[admonitio, Lat.]The hint of a fault or duty; counsel; gentle reproof.
~ Samuel Johnson
reprimanded
~ Sandra Byrd
Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.
~ Sarah Dessen
When I see something wrong, I just rail against it.
~ Deborah Birx
Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.
~ King Solomon
A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!
~ Margaret Atwood
Sullen silence was taken for rapt attention, and gave him greater room to talk; sharp answers were received as smart sallies of girlish vivacity, that only required an indulgent rebuke; and flat contradictions were but as oil to the flames, calling forth new strains of argument to support his dogmas, and bringing down upon me endless floods of reasoning to overwhelm me with conviction.
~ Anne Bronte
Someone needs to take that stick out of your ass and beat you with it
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
~ Samuel Smiles
Anything happening," she whispered. "Aside from you blundering about like a lost elephant?" he asked, in the same low tone. She nodded, accepting the rebuke. "Aside from that.
~ John Flanagan
Don't you Mother me, Madelyn!" she snapped.
~ John Flanagan
Considering myself called of my God to instruct the ignorant, comfort the sorrowful, confirm the weak, and rebuke the proud; by tongue and lively voice in these corrupt days rather than to compose books for the age to come, seeing that so much is written, and yet so little well observed, I decree to contain myself within the bounds of that vocation whereunto I found myself especially called.
~ John Knox
Sincere rebuke is medication for a sick soul. — Steven Thompson —
~ Gary Chapman
But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him to his face, for what he did was very wrong. —Galatians 2:11
~ Gary Chapman
An open rebuke is better than hidden love! —Proverbs 27:5
~ Gary Chapman
Love-making and marriage—how could they now be the imagery in which poor Gwendolen's deepest attachment could spontaneously clothe itself? Mighty Love had laid his hand upon her; but what had he demanded of her? Acceptance of rebuke—the hard task of self-change—confession—endurance. If she cried toward him, what then? She cried as the child cries whose little feet have fallen backward—cried to be taken by the hand, lest she should lose herself.
~ George Eliot
Westboro would quote this passage from the book of Leviticus that, for them, shows that the definition of 'love thy neighbor' is to rebuke your neighbor when you see him sinning. And if you don't do that, then you hate your neighbor in your heart.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
I think it is notable in this connection that it is not Adam but the Lord who rebukes Cain.
~ Marilynne Robinson
RebukeObstinate regressionbringing untold pathsof deep dark forebodingdepression...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
It is amazing but true that it is easy for any of us to rebuke someone else who is intending to do something evil and say, "Don't do that—that's a sin!" And yet it is difficult for us to say the same thing to ourselves. The reason is that saying it to ourselves requires a movement of the will, but saying it to someone else requires only a low level of thought based on things we have heard.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg