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.
- Richard Sibbes
The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.
- Danny Silk
Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.
- Myles Munroe
A light to guide, a rod to check the erring, and reprove.
- William Wordsworth
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
- Elisabeth Elliot
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
- Livy
Failure, we see again and again, isn't final, judgment has a point, and consequences are for correction.
- Rob Bell
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
- Euripides
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.
- Emily Bronte
Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.
- Benny Hinn
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.
- Peter Marshall
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones frequently said, "The Bible was not given to replace the miraculous; it was given to correct abuses.
- RT Kendall