We are woven together like the chasteninglash of war; we flame aloft like the lightning; like gardens of roses our wounds blossom at the gates of Heaven.
So if you would be a worker for God and know how to enter truly into the sorrows and needs of others, you must yourself drink the bitter cup and feel the chastening rod.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness.
If, to prevent his wandering steps, He feels the chastening rod, The gentle stroke shall bring him back To his forgiving God.
Not once in all his western career had he met with an affinitive soul on which he might have leaned and so gained that chastening sense of tender dependence without which no man ever yet attained happiness.
All too late she repented; that one second of perversity had undone a whole night's chastening and his voice was as cold as ice when he resumed: "I will therefore be unable to meet your brother on his arrival.
Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them, &c.
Letters of a lover in an extremity of love, crying for help, are as curious to cool strong men as the contortions of the proved heterodox tied to a stake must have been to their chastening ecclesiastical judges.
Now with all the mother's heart Torn and quivering with the smart, I yield him, 'neath the chastening rod, To my country and my God.
To be first in the light Of His Holy sight, And freed from His chastening rod.
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
He was in deep mourning, and his intensely pale but composed face bore the chastening lines of a profound and hopeless sorrow; but retained the proud unflinching regard peculiar to his family.
Again it is said thatchastening afterwards yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness.
It is said that we are not to despise the chastening of the Lord; for that He chastises us for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.
Only a part of the cosmic process engages his interest, or touches his soul--the strengthening or chastening of human purposes by the influences of landscape.
He feels impotent to gainsay what the tumult of the world is thundering at him, but he will not accept on authority so unwelcome and chastening a truth.
In him the chastening of the Lord yielded no peaceable fruit of righteousness; he would not see that his misfortunes were sent from the offended God of Israel.
In time thechastening of the Lord works out the peaceable fruits of righteousness, and the Christian is weaned for ever from the unprofitable service of sin.
Now, no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Thus he had not forgotten the exhortation which spoke unto him, as unto a child: My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.
God's eye is ever on his children, and though He is forbearing, He will not forever spare the chastening rod, if they live on in disobedience to his commands.
They partake of the holiness of the Lord, because they have first endured the chastening of his love.
Lord, ere our trembling lamps sink down and die, Touch us with chastening hand, and make us feel Thee nigh.
Well may the sweetly chiding and chastening poet reflect, "How wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land.
Goldsmith touched a new chord in inspiring and chastening appreciation, a spirit which even now, more and more, in life and letters, men must realize.
Certainly it rarely comes to British commanders save after very chastening experiences; and Wellesley now took part in what was, for the Austrians, a fore-ordained retreat.
Chastening or vengeance, woe, woe unto them, by whom it cometh!
Be not hastier than the chastening of the Lord; if He bears with Stephen, so canst thou a little longer.
It is not told abroad among the people what answer was given, what further asked, except that the chastening of the heretics was continued unabated, until all Judea was cleansed.
And thou, sad sufferer under nameless ill That yields not to the touch of human skill, Improve the kind occasion, understand A Father's frown, and kiss his chastening hand.
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness, unto them which are exercised thereby.
Happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
A war abroad will supply the chastening if home politics fail.
For my own part, since I love England as much as I detest her present lethargy of soul, I pray for a chastening war--I wouldn't mind her flag in the dirt if only her spirit would come out of it.
No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them that are exercised thereby.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chastening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
