5 to Chew On- Correction
by Scott Hamilton on Tuesday, 27th November 2012
We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us. Stephen Charnock
The opposite of love is not correction but indifference. Anthony Thiselton
Not to rebuke sin is a form of hatred, not love (Lev. 19:17). Refusing to warn a person about his sin is just as unloving as refusing to warn him about a serious disease he may have. A person who does not warn a friend about his sin cannot claim love as his motive. John MacArthur
Oh, that I might never be so void of love to my fallen brothers as not to give him a serious reproof, nor so void of love to myself as not to receive a serious reproof. George Swinnock
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Henry Ward Beecher