- Unless you are a model correction taker, be slow to give it.
- Correct like a friend and fellow sinner, not like an enemy.
- Knowing how you resent unjust correction, never inflict it.
- Harping on past faults is not correction but condemnation.
- Know that love wins over better than an army of accusations.
- Get help to correct when it is needed.
- Frame the correction so it will heal and not wound further.
- Decide first whether the person needs correction or help.
- Correct infrequently, and only the greater failings.
- Correction hurts, so don’t correct with a sledgehammer.
- Think how prayerfully Mary would correct, and imitate her.
- Put yourself in the culprit’s shoes and think about it. You may end up congratulating him for not being worse!
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