Reproach Quotes - Page 9

• Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.

  Pope Leo X

  Prayer, Judging, Vineyards

  "Exsurge Domine" by Pope Leo X, June 15, 1520.

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• Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.

  Karl Donitz

  Defense, Admiration, Staff

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

  Maria Monk

  Numbers, Church, Conscience

  Maria Monk, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1851). “Awful disclosures”, p.41

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• (Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Agreement, People, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.64, 谷月社

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• Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

  Charles Lamb

  Rags, Dresses, Poverty

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.127

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• There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Fate, Names

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.128

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• Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Glasses, Names

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.23

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• You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Strong, Heaven, Gold

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.364

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• To whom much is given, much is required. Righteousness exalts a nation...but sin is a reproach to any people

  Jonathan Cahn

  People, Sin, Given

  Jonathan Cahn (2012). “The Harbinger”, p.20, Charisma Media

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• Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sarcasm, Arrows, Bows

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• There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Unbearable, Thieves, Unjust

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• Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  First Love, Letters, Littles

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.232

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• The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Desire, Usual

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• Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Littles, Satire

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Splits, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Feelings, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.612

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• Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

  Thomas Watson

  Men, Damn You, Laughing

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Great Gain of Godliness”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

  Charles Mackay

  Sage, World, May

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”

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• It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet. ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Attitude, People

  Francis, Pope (2017). “With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards”, p.79, Orbis Books

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• Health is God's great gift, and we must spend it entirely for Him. Our eyes should see only for God, our feet walk only for Him, our hands labor for Him alone; in short, our entire body should serve God while we still have the time. Then, when He shall take our health and we shall near our last day, our conscience will not reproach us for having misused it.

  John Bosco

  Eye, Hands, Feet

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• A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

  Karl Marx

  Party, Europe, Police

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

  Thucydides

  Enemy, Reason

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• We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Writing, House

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.514

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• It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Islam, World

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• If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

  Franz Kafka

  Trying, Matter, Deeper

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