Quotes About Judgment

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.