A good teacher hates the laziness or ill will of a pupil, and he takes care to correct him with discipline, not that he hates the pupil or is in the grips of a kind of lust for flogging boys, though I saw many of this kind in the schools years ago when I was a boy, b ut he loves the boy very much and is moved by this love when he chastises him.
Actual fact and experience teach that there is need of discipline. Our heavenly Father follows the same method in chastising the godly. Therefore the man who can endure this discipline and persevere will at length experience what is stated in Heb. 12:11: “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” --
Martin Luther
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