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.
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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.
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.
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
