Quotes about Flattery
It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.
— Oswald Chambers
an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.
— Martin Luther
May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
— Psalm 12:3
No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.
— Thomas Watson
As no flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.
— Thomas Watson
I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.
— Ellen White
I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable.
— Oscar Wilde
Hence every teaching that flatters or indulges the flesh and teaches temporal things is not of God, because it is not a rod but a reed and softness of clothing (Matt. 11:7-8).
— Martin Luther
Bailey was strangely warmed by his compliments. It was an odd feeling to be flattered and want to punch a man at the same time. It was so confusing to hold both feelings at once ... her skin was getting a little itchy.
— Mary Connealy
For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.
— Job 32:22
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
— Psalm 12:2
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.
— Ellen White