Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly. Votes: 3
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly. Votes: 3
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly. Votes: 3
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. Votes: 1
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. Votes: 1
I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters. Votes: 1
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly. Votes: 0
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. Votes: 0
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary. Votes: 0
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove. Votes: 0
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return. Votes: 0
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults. Votes: 0
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others Votes: 0
A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence. Votes: 0
Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context. Votes: 0
If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have. Votes: 0
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. Votes: 0
Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove. Votes: 0
Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite. Votes: 0
A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.
We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement.