Quotes About Judgment

As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

One of his favourite quotations was 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.

You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience

But your scale still tips one way or another every day.

Taft said: "I don't see how I could have done any differently

Desconfíe de su primera impresión instintiva. Nuestra primera reacción natural en una situación desagradable es ponernos a la defensiva. Puede ser para peor, no para mejor.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance, and kindness. "To know all is to forgive all." As Dr. Johnson said: "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

I discovered years ago that although I couldn't keep people from criticizing me unjustly, I could do something infinitely more important: I could determine whether I would let the unjust condemnation disturb me.

It is my contention that the population in general and male literary critics in particular entertain a negative image of women and their words, to the extent that it is widely believed that you don't have to read women's writing to know it's no good!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in the first chapter of his wonderful book Life Together, has a discussion of how Christians never meet one-on-one; they always meet under the presence of Christ. That's the way we escape the dreadful habit that human beings have of sizing one another up. Does that identify anything that you are familiar with? It's one of the most dreadful things in human life, and only the love of Christ and the presence of the kingdom can bring us beyond it.

But you think there's an order, you think your actions matter, that they'll be weighed and judged in some final reckoning. But there is no reckoning. For each of us, death is the last day.

It seems many people operate on the principle that whatever happened to them is not abuse, but if it had happened to someone else, or if it had been a bit more extreme, then it would have been abusive.

De-cide. Homo-cide. Sui-cide. Patri-cide. The root word decidere means "to cut off." All decisions cut us off, separate us from nearly infinite options as we select just one single path. And every decision we make earns us the favor of some and the disfavor of others.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgemental ghost?

It appears that in order to win favor in the eyes of the God of the Old Testament, you have to be an obedient and heartless ethnic cleanser. Otherwise, step aside.

Massacring men, women, and children does not raise an eyebrow, but keeping a little war booty is "evil." Notice that throughout the Old Testament, "evil" and "wicked" are not moral judgments. Saul is called "evil" because he disobeyed orders.

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils.

Tempat tergelap di neraka dicadangkan untuk mereka yang tetap bersikap netral disaat krisis moral

Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures. Fear of being judged by an omniscient deity always helps inspire benevolent behavior.

Sometimes the only course of action is the lesser of two evils.

Los lugares más oscuros del infierno están reservados para aquellos que mantienen su neutralidad en épocas de crisis de moral

Sometimes the only course of actions if the lesser of two evils.

Por fortuna parati, nosotros los británicos no juzgamos el grado de civilización de un hombre por la amabilidad con que trata a sus amigos, sino por la compasión que demuestra para con sus enemigos