Quotes About Judgment

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you (Rom. 12:3). Paul's

we are not to judge each other in areas that are not specified by God as sin.

When you and your daughter pass a teenager with a ring in her nose and purple hair and you say, "What an idiot," your daughter knows what you're doing, even if you'd deny it to yourself. You're sending out a message that she'd better not even dream of piercing her body or dyeing her hair. She knows you're trying to persuade her, and she may react by resolving not to be persuaded.

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

It appears that having a close walk with the Lord is not religiously acceptable.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Auditors have friends?

Often in life we will be evaluated and judged by people less qualified than ourselves. And that's frustrating. Authority doesn't always indicate ability or good judgment.

There are very few good judges of comedy. The rest of us are guessing.

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness — as might be judged by certain standards — there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

Common sense argued that she shouldn't attribute to malice what could perfectly well be explained by stupidity,

He was several inches taller than her, so that allowed for a fair amount of condescension.

He's the one ought to have his head examined.

at a societal level there is a surprising shortage of institutions designed to judge what really works and which ideas deserve to be backed with resources. Markets play this role for commercial ideas. But ideas that could be socially valuable often struggle to find support, even when there is strong evidence that they work.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

For whan a man hath over-greet a wit,Ful oft hym happeth to mysusen it.

For dronkenesse is verray sepultureOf mannes wit and his discrecioun.

Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.

the guilty think all talk is of themselves.

In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave — with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble.