Correction Quotes

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Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Tho

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

God Philosophy Mistakes Beautiful Foolish Alive Assertions Divinity Correction Lifestyles Presence Of God Simple Minds

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinn

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. In this respect there was in the past a change of mentality, in which the law and the need for punishment were obscured. Ultimately this also narrowed the concept of law, which in fact is not only just being nice or courteous, but is found in the truth. And another component of the truth is that I must punish the one who has sinned against real love

Pope Benedict XVI

Truth Love Punishment Correction

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very lau

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

Reform Correction

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Reform Correction

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their fu

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

Reform Correction

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

Reform Correction

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to m

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Reform Correction

A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass b

A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.

Mayor Jimmy Walker

Reform Correction

If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest th

If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.

Reform Correction

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of p

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Reform Correction

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Voltaire (FranÃ§oisMarie Arouet)

Reform Correction

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to r

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

Reform Correction

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and action

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Reform Correction

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defe

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Lydia Maria Child

Reform Correction

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall b

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reform Correction

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Reform Correction

Sarcasm spoils reproof.

Sarcasm spoils reproof.

Reform Correction

The majority of people have not the courage to correct other

The majority of people have not the courage to correct others because they don't have the courage to bear correction themselves.

Reform Correction

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympa

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

Henry David Thoreau

Reform Correction

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It i

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Alexander Herzen

Reform Correction