| CHASTENING see also: Trials | 磨練 |
| God always warns before he wounds. 上帝讓人受傷之前，必會給予警告。 |
| When God takes away
correction, damnation enters the doors. Thomas Adams 當上帝不再修剪，懲罰隨之進門。 |
| God would not rub so hard, were it not to fetch out
the dirt and spots that be in his people. Thomas Brooks 若非上帝子民的污垢、斑點多且厚，上帝勿需如此用力擦拭。 |
| God never strikes except for
motives of love, and never takes away but in order to give. Francois Fenelon 若非為愛，上帝不會輕易擊打，若非為給予，上帝不會挪去。 |
| There is comfort to be found even in God's
condemnations. Francois Fenelon 縱在上帝責難之中，亦能尋得慰藉。 |
| God kills thy comforts from
no other design but to kill thy corruption's; wants are ordained to kill wantonness;
poverty is appointed to kill pride; reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition. John Flavel 上帝殺死我們的安適，只為讓我們免於腐朽；按立「缺乏」好殺死我們放蕩不拘；安排「貧窮」好殺死驕傲；使用「責難」毀滅我們的野心。 |
| God's wounds cure; sin's kisses kill William Gurnall 上帝所加傷痕帶來醫治；罪惡甜蜜親吻致人於死。 |
| The bitterest cup with
Christ is better than the sweetest cup without him. Ian MacPherson 基督同在最苦的苦杯尤勝過沒有基督的最甜的杯。 |
| The heavenly Father has no spoiled children. Fred Mitchell 天父上帝不會溺愛孩子。 |
| The sword of justice no
longer threatens us, but the rod of parental correction is still is use. C. H. Spurgen 我們雖然不再受公義寶劍的威脅，但是父母管教的家法仍需使用。 |
| The painful pruning knife is in safe hands. John E. W. Sttot 帶來痛楚的花剪握在令人心安的手中。 |
| God parts that and us which
would part us and him. Ralph Venning 上帝挪去我們生命中會使我們與祂隔絕的阻礙。 |
| God punishes most when he does not punish. Thomas Watson 當上帝不再懲罰就是最嚴厲的懲罰。 |