Quotes About Judgment

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

Though the gospel amnesty which grace proclaims makes no exceptions, for Divine grace has no limits, there are limits to the time within which the amnesty avails. And if sinners despise grace there is nothing for them but judgment, stern and inexorable.

You've reached the voice of reason; be reasonable!

Poor knowledge and misguided expectations lead to a lot of bad decisions.

But in modern America we often shame the wrong people. Instead of deterring behavior that undermines the common good, shame is too often deployed against people who don't fit in—to ostracize them even further.

On the traditional, heroic conception it is the normative statuses that matter, not the agent's attitudes. Parricide and incest ought not be. One should not act so as to incur the normative status of father killer and mother fucker.

Research has shown that we automatically assign to good-looking individuals such favorable traits as talent, kindness, honesty, and intelligence (for a review of this evidence, see Langlois et al., 2000).

The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: "expensive = good.

Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.

Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

Pyne: I guess your long hair makes you a girl. Zappa: I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.

In this case, because we know that the things that are difficult to possess are typically better than those that are easy to possess, we can often use an item's availability to help us quickly and correctly decide on its quality.

But it comes down to this: in deciding whether a possibility is correct, people typically look for hits rather than misses;

the correctness of an action was not adjudged by such considerations as apparent senselessness, harmfulness, injustice, or usual moral standards, but by the mere command of a higher authority.

PINE: I guess your long hair makes you a girl. ZAPPA: I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.

Once we can directly experience something without the contamination of judgment or evaluation, our reflections on that experience are much richer and more meaningful.

The successful evangelist does not stand aloof from the experience of sinners, passing easy judgment on them, praying for them from a distance; on the contrary, she loves them so much that she joins them and deigns to walk in their shoes and feel the texture of their experience.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.

We don't always get to decide what others see when they sum us up or reduce us to a caricature of the rich and various selves we think we have fashioned.

Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far."

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.