Chastisement Quotes - Page 4

• I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sin, Divine, Graves

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Men, Divine

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Revenge, Father

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• A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

  Ouida

  Men, Blood, May

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.100, Ouida

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• God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.412, Hendrickson Publishers

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• If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Spring, Humility

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• We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God's ways we go out of His government, and so lose our good frame of mind, and find ourselves overspread quickly with a contrary disposition. When we draw near to Christ (James 4:8), in His ordinances, He draws near to us.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Blessing, Government

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.110, Titus Books

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• As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams; so will grace flow more fully and freely in its near approaches to the ocean of glory.

  John Owen

  Christian, Ocean, Blessing

  John Owen (2001). “The Person of Christ”, p.433, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Flower, Blessing

  Thomas Brooks, Jay Patrick Green, Sr. (2000). “A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold”, p.170, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him.... As all our knowledge must take rise from the fear of God, so it must tend to it as its perfection and centre. Those know enough who know how to fear God, who are careful in every thing to please Him and fearful of offending Him in any thing; this is the Alpha and Omega of knowledge.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Fear, Blessing

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• Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Letting Go, Fear

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• No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.

  George Whitefield

  Faith, Christian, Blessing

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• A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

  George Whitefield

  Faith, God, Christian

  George Whitefield (1771). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters”, p.47

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• Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.

  Richard Sibbes

  Faith, Christian, Blessing

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.106, Titus Books

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• This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.

  Richard Sibbes

  Faith, Christian, Blessing

  Richard Sibbes (1775). “Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations ...”, p.32

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• When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Blessing, Race

  Samuel Rutherford (1761). “Letters, Now Divided Into Three Parts: The First Containing Those which Were Written from Aberdeen”, p.308

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• In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Blessing, Eden

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• Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

  Richard Baxter

  Death, Christian, Blessing

  Richard Baxter (1660). “A Treatise of Selfdenyall”, p.223

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• Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

  William Gurnall

  Death, Christian, Blessing

  William Gurnall (1669). “The Christian in Compleat Armour, Or, A Treatise of the Saints War Against the Devil: Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints ...”, p.270

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• If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed....?

  Richard Baxter

  Death, Christian, Morning

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• The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.

  Richard Sibbes

  Beautiful, Christian, Blessing

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• Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Blessing, Heaven

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.105, Titus Books

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• He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Pain, Blessing

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• Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest to the end of thy days, the nearer thou mayest be to the end of thy hopes, the salvation of thy soul.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Horse, Home

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• The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Done, May

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