Quotes About Judgment

All your life you have spent convincing yourself that you are bad. Not only that you are bad, but that the things you want are bad. Sex is bad, money is bad, joy is bad, power is bad, having a lot is bad—a lot of anything. Some of your religions have even got you believing that dancing is bad, music is bad, celebrating life is bad. Soon you'll agree that smiling is bad, laughing is bad, loving is bad.

Here are The Ten Illusions. Get to know them well so that you will recognize them when you encounter them. Need Exists Failure Exists Disunity Exists Insufficiency Exists Requirement Exists Judgment Exists Condemnation Exists Conditionality Exists Superiority Exists Ignorance Exists

Nothing makes God unhappy. You cannot believe this because it would require you to believe in a God without need or judgment, and you cannot imagine such a God.

you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before…

She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)

Sometimes we call those girls sluts. Do you think she had a boyfriend when she was eight?

You have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how it was before...

There's a lot of yuppies in this place, and you have that look about you, you know—the yuppie look of people with money?" "Yeah." "People who don't care about other people.

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all. No judgment implied. Just an observation.

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?

While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?

Views of Earth from space transform global perspectives for the better, I would say. But evaluating and judging individual humans from a distance hardly ever ends well. The brush strokes with which we paint and characterize the views of others tend to be broad and without nuance, leaving us susceptible to bigotry and prejudice.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.

If a woman has been married three years or more, you come to learn that she's usually easier to sleep with than a single woman.

Guilt is about what you do with your dick. Shame is about being a dick.

As I walked back to my room, a scene from The Wizard of Oz sprung into my head in which the Wizard tells the Tin Man, "A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others." I

Suddenly I realize that the dichotomy between the false self and the authentic self that all these recovery people talk about is meaningless. It's a value judgment that's impossible to determine. A better way to think about it is the destructive self and the creative self: the you that damages your life and the lives of others, and the you that brings forth the best in yourself, is connected to others, and is in harmony with the world around you.

Christianity does not work" is the message sent into the world when we fail to live a righteous life.

You can't bring an accusation against a pastor simply because you do not like him.

Legalism is alive and well in many of our churches.

Did that woman, could that woman, somehow know that here before her very eyes on the roof of the Drayton sat a Negro? Absurd!

She said: "It's funny about 'passing.' We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and yet we rather admire it. We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it.