One evening I sat Beauty on my knees And I found her bitter And I reviled her.
Quotes about reviled (10 Quotes)
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.
And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.
We're one of the most reviled subsets of one of the most reviled professions. We're going to lose the battle every time.
We have sought to address this inequity, ... And what has been the response from former imperialist quarters Staggering beyond description. My government, my party and my own person have been labeled land grabbers, demonized, reviled and threatened with sanctions in the face of accusations of reverse racism.
We honor a group of young people who were essential in bringing down a reviled dictatorship.
Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again when he suffered, he threatened not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
The parent's job year in and year out, here a little and there a little, is to build up a disposition of good sportsmanship, of taking one's medicine, of facing the music, of being reviled and reviling not. This sense of not always being right, of recognition that perhaps we've made a mistake, seems left out of some grown-up children.
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.