Chastening Quotes

#1. I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ... To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab
world against us and make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero.

George H. W. Bush

#2. I think I'd rather be liked than loved.
It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like.
So, I hope you like me.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Diane Ackerman

#4. We, as mothers, will have children of all ages, at all stages of their religious journey. Some have been saved, some are struggling in sin, some are confused, and some are under the chastening hand of God. We need to be there, praying, smiling, encouraging and seeing them through these rough years.

Sharon White

#5. Speak, Lord"; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, "Speak, Lord."

Oswald Chambers

#6. 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

#7. I like fast plots with things that explode.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#8. The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

K. Martin Beckner

#10. Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

George Herbert

#11. We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

Lana Wachowski

#12. Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.

Max Anders

#13. Life isn't fair. It doesn't make sense. This unfairness is felt by everyone, from the Las Vegas tunnel dweller all the way to the executive in the high-rise. To some, these "unfair" experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life.

John-Talmage Mathis

#14. I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

Charles Barkley

#15. Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#16. 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

#17. There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.

Ann Brashares

#18. Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.

Jaclyn Dolamore

#19. Snails mate faster than Farnsworths."
Georgie gave her a chastening look. "Eliza."
"Well, it's true. I've watched."
"You've spied on Sir Roland?"
"No, I've spied on snails.

Tessa Dare

#20. The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.

Jonathan Hickman

#21. Hmm," he said. "Like the world is big again. No. Not again. Like I only thought it had gotten small while I was inside, but now I see it was big the whole time, just waiting out there. Waiting for me to come back.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#22. Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

Robert Burchfield

#23. 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

#24. I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.

Rene Descartes

#25. I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Frank Moore Colby

#27. Traffic with the world is laid upon us for chastening, and for the testing of our vocation. The grace of God is not endangered by the follies or the wickedness of men.

Ellis Peters

#28. Failure is a chastening to do it more better , think more intelligently and restart the whole course from the nadir .

Osunsakin Adewale

#29. It's just as important to work on the little muscle groups as well as the big muscle groups. People, when they train, go to gyms. I call them 'nightclub bodies' - ginormous up top, and legs are little sticks. You see a lot of people, and they forget you can't leave the little muscles behind.

Misty May-Treanor

#30. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

Rumi