80 Chastisement Quotes
Following is our list of chastisement quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about chastening.
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Famous Chastisement Quotes
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. — Ellen Key
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof. — Proverbs
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. — Emily Dickinson
Vices are their own punishment — Aesop
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder. — Saint Augustine
What a man suffers is the punishment of his tongue. — Turkish Proverbs
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. — Daniel J. Siegel
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn! — Sayings
Discipline is not a punishment. It’s a practice of self-control and self-mastery. — Andrew Tate
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. — Horace
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. — Bruno Bettelheim
Punishment only gets short term obedience. Praise gets long term loyalty. — Alex Hormozi
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society. — Haim Ginott
Discipline awaits he who leaves his path. — Moroccan Proverbs
Short Chastisement Quotes
- How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended. — George Whitefield
- Say nice things of your friend around others, chastise him face to face. — Moroccan Proverbs
- Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord. — Walter Cradock
- Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks. — Thomas Goodwin
- If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent. — Aristotle
- That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face. — Thomas Adams
- There is nothing destroyed by sanctification but that which would destroy us. — William Jenkyn
- God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill. — William Gurnall
- Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace. — Richard Sibbes
- The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight. — Thomas Watson
Chastening Quotes
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes. — Horace Greeley
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
The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice. — Fannie Barrier Williams
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey. — Diane Ackerman
As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew. — Alfred De Musset
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls. — Oswald Chambers
My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to carry a peculiar cross, lest by any means they exalt themselves, and fall into the snare of the devil. — Charles Spurgeon
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement. — Hannah Whitall Smith
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. — Robert Southey
I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses. — Jack Abramoff
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More Chastisement Quotes
A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him. — Jonathan Edwards
Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'? — Leonard Ravenhill
Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is "content" with such as he has (Heb. 13:5). — Arthur W. Pink
The impious soul screams: I burn; I am ablaze; I know not what to cry or do; wretched me, I am devoured by all the ills that compass me about; alack, poor me, I neither see nor hear! This is the soul’s chastisement of itself. For the mind of the man imposes these on the soul. — Egyptian Proverbs
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6). — William Gurnall
I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince. — Elizabeth I
The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise. — Richard Sibbes
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die. — Vavasor Powell
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
Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows. — Nawal El Saadawi
For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven. — Saint Patrick
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition. — Jeremiah Burroughs
The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me. — George Whitefield
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
The torments of hell abide for ever.... If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and take away one grain of this sand, it would be a long time ere that vast heap of sand were emptied; yet, if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there were some hope; but this word EVER breaks the heart. — Thomas Watson
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us. — Andy Murray
Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit? — John Owen
I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In uniting yourself to God's will, you take on new life and gather great courage, willingly embracing the cross and kissing His hand even when it chastises you, a hand that reaches out to you in love and has no other intention but your greater spiritual well-being. — Paul of the Cross
God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments. — William Gurnall
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope. — Thomas Watson
My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister. — Robert Menzies
Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause. — George Whitefield
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
For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart. — Arthur W. Pink
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure a bitter time, when he must drink the poison of temptations. Without them, it is not possible to obtain a strong will. When he has often experienced the help of God in temptations, a man also obtains strong faith. — Isaac of Nineveh
Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. — Thomas Gray
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
Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision. — George Whitefield
When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement. — Bhakti Charu Swami
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
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
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. — William Blake
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
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