Quotes About Judgment

you never knew how things might go on Judgment Day.

Por último, medita mucho sobre la severidad y lo repentino de ese día del juicio, a través del cual tú y yo debemos pasar al estado eterno; en donde Dios, el juez imparcial, requerirá cuenta de todo lo que hicimos con nuestros talentos y aquello que nos fue encargado.

Ya que tales hombres viven como si no tuvieran que rendirle servicio a Dios, ni buscando a Cristo, como si no tuviesen que mortificar las pasiones carnales, sin negar el yo, ni creyendo en la Escritura, que no piensan en el día del juicio, ni que el infierno tiene que ser temido, que no desean el cielo, sin valorar su alma; pero se entregan a una sensualidad peor que salvaje, "para cometer con avidez toda clase de impureza,"[43] viviendo sin Dios en el mundo.

Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'

Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.

When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.

Spinoza tells us that we do not desire or detest things because we judge them to be good or evil; we judge them good or evil because we desire or detest them.

This is why he urges Haida, despite the banality of the world around him, to live fully and find meaning in that process where he can. Midorikawa is not Mephistopheles tempting Haida with a choice, but an arhat acting out of an abundance of compassion; his purpose—to judge from the results—is to awaken Haida to his own special ability.

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

le bouddhisme en appelle à une pratique de transformation personnelle pour que l'agent moral grandisse en sagesse, ce qui lui permet d'adopter une motivation plus altruiste et de bénéficier d'une clarté d'esprit accrue pour affiner son jugement.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

God has sealed their hearts and their ears, and over their eyes there is a covering. They will have a terrible punishment. 8

On the Day of Judgment, no step shall a man stir until he has answered questions on five aspects of his wordly existence: his life and how he spent it; his knowledge and what use he has made of it; his wealth, how he acquired it and how he has spent it; and his body and how he has utilized it. HADITH OF AT-TIRMIDHI ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABU HURAYRAH.

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

CLOTHES SWITCH How would the story change if the characters were dressed differently—preppy, gangsta rapper-style? ETHNIC/RACE SWITCH What if the characters were given different ethnicities or races? How would that change the story? EMOTION SWITCH

Meadow didn't know whether to be amused or disgusted by the woman's shameless opportunism.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Prince Edward confirmed the sentence; but he was reflecting deeply and beginning silently to form views as to how a man destined to great responsibilities should behave. To listen before speaking, to inform yourself before judging, to understand before deciding, and to remember always that there were to be found in every man the springs both of the highest as well as the lowest actions: these, for a sovereign, were the first steps towards wisdom.

De ce visage en feu, la voix effrayante proféra : "Pape Clément!... Chevalier Guillaume!... Roi Philippe!... Avant un an, je vous cite à paraître au tribunal de Dieu pour y recevoir votre juste châtiment ! Maudits ! Maudits ! tous maudits jusqu'à la treizième génération de vos races!...

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

Death descends upon us to take away a life or change its form: let us judge it by what it does and not by what we do before it comes and after it is gone.

The real is a tightly woven fabric; it does not wait for our judgments in order to incorporate the ,ostensibly surprising of phenomena, nor to reject the ostensibly convincing of ournimaginings. Perception is not a science of the world, nor even an act or a deliberate taking of a stand; it is the background against which all acts stand out and is thus presuppose by them.

Marxism, rather than an affirmation of a future that is necessary, is much more a judgment of the present as contradictory and intolerable.

The possession of a representation or the exercise of a judgment is not coextensive with the life of consciousness. Rather, consciousness is a network of signification intentions which are sometimes clear to themselves and sometimes, on the contrary, lived rather than known.