Rebuke Quotes

• It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

  Aeschylus

  Feet, Giving, Advice

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Friends, Religious, Jesus

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 5: Sermons 225-285”, p.364, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.

  Jim Cymbala

  Mistake, Heart, People

  Jim Cymbala (2008). “Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire”, p.145, Zondervan

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Loser

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

  William Feather

  Thinking, Next, Honest

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• 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

  Wise, Fighting, Pride

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

  D. A. Carson

  Humility, Accepting, Harder

  D. A. Carson (2017). “Matthew”, p.748, Zondervan

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• For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Fall, Thinking

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• The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Christian, Greatness, Men

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1882). “Sermons on Special Occasions: Preached in Westminster Abbey”

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• A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mistake, Good Friend, Secret

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• Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

  Seamus Heaney

  Forgiveness, Sea, Forgiving

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• Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation

  Angelina Grimke

  Christian, Flames, Faithful

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.155, Penguin

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• A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, World, Moral

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Modern, Lord

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• It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

  William Penn

  Allowance, Neighbour, Severe

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.166

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• The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except to throw over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Work Out, World, Lines

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.15, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light.

  Albrecht Durer

  Mean, Errors, Light

  Introduction by Albrecht Durer (first lines) to Karl Popper "Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge", 1963.

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• Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley at the river with the dogs, their higher, sharper voices full of authority and rebuke. They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Dog, Night, Voice

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• Don't punish people who repent; heal them. I don't believe that private sin requires public rebuke or removal from office if repentance is taking place. However, when no evidence of true repentance exists, then discipline is in order.

  Ted Haggard

  Believe, Order, Office

  Ted Haggard, R. Lance Coles (1998). “The Life-giving Church”, Baker Publishing Group

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• If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Should Have, Retrospect

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• If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

  William Temple

  Prayer, Selfish, Answers

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• The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

  Booth Tarkington

  Desire, Males, Female

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Penrod”, p.58, Booklassic

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• Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

  Sigmund Freud

  Feelings, Knows

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• We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

  Publilius Syrus

  Vices, Virtue, Familiar

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• No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Voice, America

  Speech at Market Hall, New York, N.Y., 22 Oct. 1847

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