Quotes About Judgment

And, at the risk of generalizing unduly, we might suggest that here as well is the point of contact for the application of the message of Colossians to a wide variety of historical and contemporary teachings. Any teaching that questions the sufficiency of Christ — not only for "initial" salvation but also for spiritual growth and ultimate salvation from judgment — falls under the massive christological critique of Colossians.

secrecy that eventually landed him in jail? We are not just the sum total of everything that has happened to us, but also a testament to the way we have interpreted all that has crossed our path. The music of chance intersecting with the maddening complexities of choice – and how, in the wake of bad judgment and self-sabotage, we so often rewrite the scenario to create one that we can live with.

There is a gigantic modern fallacy at work here. For of course people only think that they would have acted better in history because they know how history ended up. People in history didn't – and don't – have that luxury. They made good or bad choices in the times and places they were in, given the situations and shibboleths that they found themselves with.

In 2016 when Peter Thiel endorsed Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland he immediately became a non-gay in the eyes of the most prominent gay magazine in America. To have gone to the right – and to the Donald Trump right at that – was such an egregious fault that Advocate excommunicated Thiel from the church of gay. Two years later precisely the same pattern played out among black Americans. After

Anchoring bias" refers to our tendency to rely on the first information we hear.

The urge to blame is based . . . on the fear of being blamed.

The truth is, intentions are invisible. We assume them from other people's behavior. In other words, we make them up, we invent them. But

Interpretations and judgments are important to explore. In contrast, the quest to determine who is right and who is wrong is a dead end. In

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong. —Warren Buffett

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Nine times out of ten, the coarse word is the word that condemns an evil and the refined word the word that excuses it. G.

We are not only tempted by wealth, we are tempted to blame wealth.

When the wrath of God is revealed in the world, it is revealed as God "lets go" of a culture

If you reduce everything to skin color, you are like someone whose library catalog system puts all the red books over here, and all the gray ones over there. But what do the books say? What are they about? Shouldn't we file them in accordance with what they are saying?

We are starting to slide when we start to judge our brother's motives by whether or not he experiences the same gut response of reactive compassion to the outrage we are assigned to deal with. But a Christian nurse in Romania who has dedicated herself to caring for abandoned orphans with birth defects may never have heard of Roe v. Wade. She doesn't need to.

To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

juzgas la realidad de otros no podrás evitar juzgar la tuya propia.

We have judged God and found Him guilty of those things we do not understand.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.

Common sense needs to be more common.

You wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.