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Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I
- Mark Twain
What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
- Ayn Rand
To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.
- Paul Washer
it is a thing much more worthy of admiration and praise to receive admonition meekly, than to admonish a transgressor boldly.
- Jerome
Bad grammar makes me [sic].
- Anonymous
My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- Anonymous
O, man! learn from the precept what you ought to do; learn from correction, that it is your own fault you have not the power; and learn in prayer, whence it is that you may receive the power.
- John Calvin
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.
- JI Packer
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.
- CS Lewis
The Bible will teach you, correct you, instruct you, and give you hope.
- Elizabeth George