While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this si...mple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Near by is an interesting ruin--the meagre remains of an ancient heathen temple--a place where human sacrifices were offered up in... those old bygone days when the simple child of nature, yielding momentarily to sin when sorely tempted, acknowledged his error when calm reflection had shown it to him, and came forward with noble frankness and offered up his grandmother as an atoning sacrifice--in those old days when the luckless sinner could keep on cleansing his conscience and achieving periodical happiness as long as his relations held out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all aslee...p at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth w...hen it is pronounced unpleasant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great; for it is better to be told, "Come up here,..." than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I go forward, he is not there; or backward, I cannot perceive him; on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him; I turn to the... right, but I cannot see him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, ...and shalt deliver his soul from hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righ...teousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »