Quotes About Judgment

Every reader is a casting director.

You know you've been writing from the heart when, in the midst of a story, you ask, 'What would my mother think of this?

After all, the Beatitudes don't tend to look a lot like modern Christianity. We choose a political team. We select a denominational preference. We hitch our cart to a branch of philosophy. Anyone that disagrees is quickly and succinctly judged, and simultaneously disregarded as worthless. Big problem with that approach. We are supposed to be loving those who don't agree with us to Jesus—and you can't love those whom you deem worthless.

He said he was concerned about what could still happen to me. I could still be vilified and seen as dangerous, therefore losing me the last remaining bit of respectability I have with the Christian world. I said that after everything I'd been through for the sake of integrity, how could I allow fears like that to control me?

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

If you're inclined to worry, society sure has given you a good selection.

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices

You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.