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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke. -- William Feather
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. -- Sydney J. Harris
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. -- Aeschylus
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure. -- Dalai Lama
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
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
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive -- Seamus Heaney
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction. -- Henry David Thoreau
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] -- Juvenal
Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated. -- Kofi Annan
It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour. -- William Penn
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity. -- Angela Merici
As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
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
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. -- William Lloyd Garrison
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
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
Remember how the Lord rebukes Martha when He says: 'You are anxious and troubled about many things: one thing alone is needful' (Lk. 10:41-42) ? to hear the divine word; after that, one should be content with anything that comes to hand. -- Evagrius Ponticus
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
Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life. -- Saint Basil
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
If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions. -- Alphonsus Liguori
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
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. -- Booth Tarkington
It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test. -- Joel Osteen
So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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
The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast. -- Ellen G. White
The past is always a rebuke to the present. -- Robert Penn Warren
You surely remember your past when you rebuke me in honesty. -- Toba Beta
One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise. -- Seth D.
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. -- Publilius Syrus
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures. -- Lewis Thomas
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. -- Seamus Heaney
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke -- William Feather
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. -- William Shakespeare
The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him. -- John Hagee
Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent. -- Ambrose Bierce
A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world. -- Billy Graham
An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires. -- Christilot Hanson-Boylen
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
Because of Jesus' finished work of the cross, He will never be angry with you nor rebuke you even when you fail. -- Joseph Prince
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. -- Paul the Apostle
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. -- Booth Tarkington
Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger. -- John Milton
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
It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke. -- Plato
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery. -- Lewis Thomas
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls. -- John Lancaster Spalding
One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them. -- H. L. Mencken
Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you. -- Oswald Chambers
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
The Donald Trump team hit back with a swift and stunning rebuke of the CIA. Quote, "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction." -- Donald Trump
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
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
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause. -- Margaret Atwood
My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven. -- Ambrose Bierce
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure. -- St. Jerome
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

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