Quotes About Judgment

It required what a friend calls "putting every word on trial for its life":

We're Christians. We have to care what people think. The appearance of wrongdoing, remember? I'm not going to move in with you had have people think we're living in sin. What sort of witness would that be?

Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions. . . . Keep me from lying to myself. . . . Help me abandon my shameful ways. . . . I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgment and knowledge.

It's not for me to condemn anyone, no matter what they do, but I fear for her. God knows.

Levanté la vista y vi un caballo de color verde pálido.El jinete se llamaba Muerte y su compañero era la Tumba. APOCALIPSIS 6:8

Let anyone among you who is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at her. JESUS, JOHN 8:7

They didn't kill the one they judged anymore. They left them broken and wounded.

Let anyone among you who is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at her.

Pe vremea cand eram mai tanar si mai influen?abil, tata mi-a dat un sfat care de atunci mi-a ramas prezent in minte. -Ori de cate ori ai pofta sa critici pe cineva, mi-a spus, ?ine seama ca nu to?i oamenii au avut avantajele de care te-ai bucurat tu.

Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo en el que no he dejado de pensar desde entonces. «Antes de criticar a nadie», me dijo, «recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las ventajas que has tenido tú».

No juzgar es motivo de esperanza infinita. Todavía creo que perdería algo si olvidara que, como sugería mi padre con cierto esnobismo, y como con cierto esnobismo repito ahora, el más elemental sentido de la decencia se reparte desigualmente al nacer.

Negli anni più vulnerabili della giovinezza, mio padre mi diede un consiglio che non mi è mai più uscito di mente. Quando ti vien voglia di criticare qualcuno mi disse ricordati che non tutti a questo mondo hanno avuto i vantaggi che hai avuto tu.

If Christianity is anything, it's a refusal to see human behavior as ruled by the balance sheet. We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're doing.

Should' is my all time least favorite word. It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

Should is my all time least favorite word! It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

The challenge of life, present for most of it but more dominant in the second half, is adjusting to loss or, more specifically, developing the judgment and grace not only to accept its inevitability but also to recognize that it's not the only trajectory, that there are many ways to meet and measure it and that there are consolations, including all that remains. Cherishing those leftovers—those holdovers—is the key to thriving, and sometimes even to surviving.

Blondes are like left-handed athletes, they all get a second look even if they don't deserve one.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error," Leto explained. "To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!

To exist is to stand out, away from the background, The Preacher said. You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Too Much Knowledge never makes for Simple Decisions.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.