Quotes about Severity
The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.
- G Campbell Morgan
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
- Hippocrates
A happy saint is one who is at the same time aware of the severity of sin and the immensity of grace. Sin is not diminished, nor is God's ability to forgive it. The saint dwells in grace, not guilt. This is the tranquil soul.
- Max Lucado
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
- Cicero
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
- Pierre Corneille
When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- George Eliot
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
- Samuel Johnson
God's fatherhood does not lessen the severity of His wrath or lower the standard of His justice. On the contrary, a loving father requires more from his children than judges demand from defendants. Yet a good father also shows greater mercy.
- Scott Hahn
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
- John Bunyan
The anger of God proceeds with a slow step to avenge itself, but that it compensates for its tardiness by the severity of its punishment.
- John Calvin
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
- Samuel Johnson
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
- Samuel Johnson