Quotes About Judgment

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

Gordie reaches over and picks up my glass and takes a swig. "Hey!" he says. "Yummy!" "See?" I tell Gracie. But she continues to grimace. "You do realize that Gee Three liking something is empirically meaningless? He's a pig." At that, Logan, who sits next to me, starts to laugh.

God's authority is original and absolute, while all human authority is derivative and limited. God's judgments are always perfectly holy and righteous, while human judgments are tainted by sin. God's judgments are based on perfect, exhaustive knowledge of the facts of the case, while human judgments must be based on partial, imperfect knowledge

There is an obvious disconnect between someone's claim to be relativist and his own moral judgments, including his judgment that people ought to be relativist.

A resurrection waits in the future of all people, whether saved or lost, kingdom saints or the Body of Christ. 'Marvel not at this for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and come forth they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation' (Jn. 528, 29).

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. You may not live forever, but the over-cautious may not live at all. Courage

Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).

Imagine a world where people are drawn to the life-changing displays of God's love in our own lives, rather than repelled by our harsh words of judgment and finger-pointing over the sins and imperfections of others.

We've all had judgement lapses that had us tiptoeing toward our own personal apocalypse.'

When (because there is no "if" about this) you are meditating and suddenly find yourself mixing up a batch of brownies or deciding whether to eat Chinese or Italian tonight, just realize that you have strayed off. Then, without judging yourself a "bad" meditator, gently return your awareness to your breath.

Your experience of life is determined by where you focus your attention. If you focus on content, i.e., the thoughts, images, and feelings arising right now, your attention is lost in a world of judging things as good, bad, or neutral—a real roller-coaster ride.

The Price of Neglect A PUBLIC THAT'S illiterate about the conflicts of the past can easily find itself confused during wartime. Without standards of historical comparison, people prove ill-equipped to make informed judgments when the dogs of war are unleashed. Neither U.S. politicians nor most citizens seem to recall the incompetence and terrible decisions that, in December 1777, December 1941, and November 1950, led to massive American casualties and, for a time, public despair.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

What's that shit?" "Bubbles. It's a bubble bath." "Jesus H. Christ, I can't take a bubble bath. What'll people think? If anybody found out I was taking bubble baths…" "Well, why don't you climb into the tub and I'll go fight off the paparazzi, okay?

Why don't they let us explain who we are?' Derin protested 'It's not fair judging us like that without giving us a chance to speak' Marna laughed mirthlessly. 'Do you think that would help?' she responded. 'The face of fear has neither eyes nor ears. It is blind and deaf to all but its own terrors.

A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.

Proctor is a moralist who says, "I've always believed that why a subject behaved as he did was a proper subject for medical study, but how he behaved was a proper basis for judging a person.

We rarely make mistakes in analysis. We usually make them in our assumptions.

I looked at the girls and sighed. Poor creatures, I said to myself, you also will end up in his jump heap. Lawrence isn't one to be caught by partygoers. When he's had his fill of your sort, he will go home to his village and dig out a farm girl, like a cocoyam, a girl who will produce his kids while he continues to enjoy his freedom.

Women, intelligent or not, were rarely reasonable.

El adulto ha optado por no ser adulto del todo, ha abdicado de la reflexión y el juicio y ha preferido seguir siendo joven. Es lo que califica a este mundo light, de pensamiento débil y relaciones líquidas, un mundo posmoderno que rehuye las dificultades y los problemas.

Cordelia glared at me. 'I expect if someone strapped you to table an swung an axe over your naked quivering flesh like The Pit and the Pendulum, you'd be correcting his grammar'.

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.