Quotes about Severity

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.

This is the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. He came to warn them that a day was coming, burning as an oven, wherein all stubble should be destroyed, because God loved them. Every message of coming judgment or blessing is a message of love, - whether spoken in words that sound hard, and harsh, and severe, revealing to them their true condition, or in words of tenderness, and comfort and wooing pathos.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

The anger of God proceeds with a slow step to avenge itself, but that it compensates for its tardiness by the severity of its punishment.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

Kindness affects more than severity.

you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.