Quotes About Judgment

You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don't have much sense.

She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.

We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel that we already know something in its totality, then we fail to keep our ears and eyes open to that which may expand or even changes that which we so zealously think we know.

The minute anybody starts telling you what God thinks, or exactly why he does such and such, beware.

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify [pigeonhole] him, and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him, and he ceases to be able to become better. We must dare to love in a world that does not know how to love.

Don't try to make comparisons. By whose standards do we compare?

None of us likes to see himself as he must appear to others.

Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other harshly and were cold of heart.

There were women who fussed about their homes as if they thought life were a permanent examination where they would be found wanting.

2. Men like women without make-up. They don't. They like extremely well and carefully made-up women whose skin has that expensive cultured look which comes from three hours at the dressing table. A woman who is really without make-up would frighten them to death. They regard blotches as eczema, and uneven colouring as a sign of tertiary syphilis.

I don't know. Maybe the fellow from my own home town. He's very good looking, Stevie.' Kit said this partly to put the glamorous Frankie in the position of knowing that Stevie was out of bounds, partly to convince herself. In her heart she knew that Stevie was cheap and obvious.

Was Louis mean? He had always seemed the very spirit of generosity. When he had hardly sixpence left he would spend the coins he had on a bunch of violets. She couldn't bear to think of Louis as mean. Anything else but that.

Do you like Stevie?' 'No, but he's good-looking.' 'And is Philip O'Brien good-looking?' 'No, but he's keen on you.' Clio had the world sorted out.

Benny explained that it wasn't her sweater. It was borrowed from a fellow. She wondered why she needed to tell so much to strangers.

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