Quotes About Judgment

Some Christians respond to the divide by making harsh judgments about the people they disagree with — ?one of the main reasons evangelicals have an unsavory reputation. I cringe when I hear such words, and respond by keeping mostly quiet about my faith. Neither approach is healthy.

He lambastes Catholics. He opposes the J. B. Phillips version of the Bible because Phillips had a friendship with C. S. Lewis, who drank beer and smoked a pipe.

Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?

persons with AIDS, and they hear a very clear message from the church: "You get no sympathy from me. You deserve your suffering as God's punishment. Keep away." I cannot think of a more terrifying disease than AIDS, or one that provokes a less compassionate response.

The One who had the right to destroy the world—and had nearly done so once in Noah's day—chose instead to love the world, at any cost.

Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, "She must be suffering because of some sin she committed"; Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.

Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist.

Y el mundo que nos observa, juzga a Dios por aquellos que llevan su nombre. En gran medida, la desilusión con Dios brota de la desilusión con los demás cristianos.

It was no accident, I believe, that Jesus spoke his triumphant words, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD, even as Roman soldiers were buckling on weapons for his arrest. He knew how to judge the present by the future.

I fight the tentacular grip of ungrace in my own life. Although I may not perpetuate the strictness of my upbringing, I battle daily against pride, judgmentalism, and a feeling that I must somehow earn God's approval.

do worry about the recent tendency for the labels "evangelical Christian" and "religious right" to become interchangeable. Increasingly Christians are perceived as rigid moralists who want to control others' lives.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?' Yes i do. she says uncertainly.

How can I bless you when you are cursed in your choice?

We are not ordered by God to judge each other. We are not even ordered by him to consider another person's sin. We are ordered by God to let Him consider it, to let Him be judge.

never have imagined that she would imprison a woman about to give birth for doing nothing worse than marrying the young man she loves.

feel that deep joy of a writer seeing her work in print for the first time. The absorbing private work has become public, it has stepped out into the world. It will be judged and I am full of confidence that it is good work.

It's not magic. It's what any slut does if she has her wits about her.

A title like 'the Lady,' for those who are too mealymouthed to call a whore a whore.

This is how women are treated: when they act on their own account they are named as sinners, when they enjoy success they are named as whores.

Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes? That's

Still, she felt absolutely sick inside, and as soon as she walked into her classroom, she knew that everyone was looking at her, even the teacher, as though at any moment she might stand up and do something crazy. Wally, in fact, kept leaning forward in his seat as if she might go berserk and take a bite out of his shoulder or something.

La giustizia è un robot senza cuore nè intelligenza: colpisce a seconda della carica che ha avuto. E la carica è costituita dalle prove.

Non era stato lui lo sconfitto, ma la giustizia: quella umana almeno, perchè in quella divina credeva e sperava fermamente. E lo disse al giudice: Vedrà,signor giudice! Quello che non ha potuto fare la legge, lo farà un'altra mano!