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Quotes About Judgment

Meditate of Christ's coming to judgment. Surely thou wilt not easily sleep while this trumpet, that shall call all mankind to judgment, shall sound in thy ear.
~ William Gurnall
Those who are so far from being holy them selves, that they mock and jeer others for being so. This breastplate of righteousness is of so base an ac count with them, that they who wear it in their daily conversation do make themselves no less ridiculous to them than if they came forth in a fool's coat, or were clad in a dress contrived on purpose to move laughter.
~ William Gurnall
It is a very small thing to be judged by man now for our boldness, but dismal to be condemned by Christ for our cowardice
~ William Gurnall
We would all pass for such as have the true faith and not the false. But, be not your own judges; appeal to the Spirit of God, and let him, with the sword of his word, come and decide the controversy. Which faith is thine, the true or false?
~ William Gurnall
The grave was never intended to be a sanctuary to defend sinners from the hand of justice, but a close prison to secure them against the day of trial, that they may be forthcoming.
~ William Gurnall
Quote the Scripture rather than men for thy judgment.
~ William Gurnall
Is it thy head is weak—thy judgment I mean? watch thyself, and come not among those that drink no wine but that which thy weak parts cannot bear —seraphic notions and high-flown opinions—and do not think thyself much wronged to be forbidden their cup.
~ William Gurnall
Many think they shall not pay so dear for an error in judgment as for a sin in practice. Yea, some have such a latitude, that they fancy a man may be saved in any religion—
~ William Gurnall
We are grown debauched in our judgments, and corrupt in our principles; no wonder then if carnal in our joys.
~ William Gurnall
He that believeth not is condemned already,' John 3:18. He hath his mittimus already to jail; yea, he is in it already in a sense—he hath the brand of a damned person on him.
~ William Gurnall
We disfigure the beautiful face of God's providence, when we fancy him to have a cast of his eye, and care, to one more than another.
~ William Gurnall
But, as the father hath it, manducant in terris quod apud inferos digerunt—they devour on earth those morsels that will lie heavy on their stomachs in hell to be digesting to eternity.
~ William Gurnall
no one could say, looking at her lined, pale and puffy face, the shapeless garish sack she had double-pinned around her, or the misfocusing eyes and slack wet mouth, that she had led the right life, and she knew it, not even with Freud's fist could she repress that...
~ William H. Gass
When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.
~ William H. Gass
The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
~ William Hazlitt
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
~ William Hazlitt
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice
~ William Hazlitt
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
~ William Hazlitt
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
~ William Hazlitt
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
~ William Hazlitt
The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
~ William Hazlitt
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
~ William Hazlitt
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
~ William Hazlitt
We are very much what others think of us . The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
~ William Hazlitt