Quotes about Correction

A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words.

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

A light to guide, a rod to check the erring, and reprove.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

Failure, we see again and again, isn't final, judgment has a point, and consequences are for correction.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.

They stopped their ears and refused to listen to their ministers, and they ceased to correct and admonish one another and their children, choosing instead, greed, privacy, independence, and idolatry.

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones frequently said, "The Bible was not given to replace the miraculous; it was given to correct abuses.