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May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”
- 1 Samuel 25:22
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
- 2 Kings 25:3
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
- Jeremiah 52:6
There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?
- Nahum 3:19
This is why I write these things while absent, so that when I am present I will not need to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.
- 2 Corinthians 13:10
If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.
- Vincent Van Gogh
And now without redemption all mankind must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
- John Milton
What was most important would have been love, the severe desire for the child, not to succeed, but to fearlessly engage in a world in which love is so fearfully exchanged.
- Donald Miller
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
- John Keats
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
If we think we are facing an irresistible cosmic force of evil, it will invariably lead to giving in and giving up—usually with very little resistance. If you can convince yourself that you are helpless, you can then stop struggling and just "let it happen." That will seem a great relief—for a while. You can once more be a normal human being. But then you will have to deal with the consequences. And for normal human beings those are very severe.
- Dallas Willard
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
- Soren Kierkegaard