Quotes About Judgment

when we are angered by the sins of   others, we should beware lest a temptation of an opposite kind should   take possession of our minds.

And this is the main difference between the gospel and philosophy: for   though the philosophers speak excellently and with great judgment on   the subject of morals, yet whatever excellency shines forth in their   precepts, it is, as it were, a beautiful superstructure without a   foundation; for by omitting principles, they offer a mutilated   doctrine, like a body without a head.

we remain exposed to the judgment of God, we are bound by miserable   chains, and therefore our exemption from guilt, becomes an invaluable   freedom.

But we must so cherish moderation that we do not try to make God render account to us, but so reverence his secret judgments as to consider his will the truly just cause of all things.

And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge on which religion turns,3 so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself.

It is not fitting that God, before whose tribunal we must all finally stand, be subjected to our judgment — or rather to our foolish temerity. God

I grant more: thieves and murderers and other evildoers are the instruments of divine providence, and the Lord himself uses these to carry out the judgments that he has determined with himself. Yet I deny that they can derive from this any excuse for their evil deeds. Why?

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Samuel didn't move. 'What will you do if I climb off the bed?' 'Well I can eat you, or I can drag you down to the depths of Hell, never to seen or heard from again. Depends, really.' 'On what?' 'Lost of things: hygiene, for a start. After tasting that sock, I don't fancy eating any part of you, to be honest, so it'll have to be the depths of Hell for you, I'm afraid.

In general it's a good idea to avoid people who take themselves too seriously. As individuals, we have only so much seriousness to go round, and people who take themselves very seriously don't have enough seriousness left over to take other people seriously. Instead they tend to look down on them, and are secretly pleased when they get stuff wrong, because they just prove to the too-serious types that they were right not to take them too seriously to begin with.

In any given situation, the most difficult step is to reach a decision. Once a decision is made, control can be asserted.

Law and justice are not the same.

Only an idiot asks questions like "Have you read all of these books?" or "Have you listened to all of those CDs?" Seriously, there should be a number that one can call under those circumstances, after which a squad of big blokes will arrive at one's door and beat the questioning fool unconscious with a pristine copy of À la recherche du temps perdu , or that collection of the Complete Works of Beethoven that was just too cheap to pass up.

Mr. Berger found himself consigned to the dusty ranks of the council's spinsters and bachelors, to the army of the closeted, the odd, and the sad, although he was none of these things. Well, perhaps just a little of the latter:

To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death. —Revelation 21:8

I think Philip could spend an afternoon throwing puppies from the top of the Empire State and only stop when his arm got tired." "It's not the same as killing

They looked to Ferrier like they ate bad food to match their bad taste in clothes and wheels. The

I've started to believe that most people do what they think is right. The problems arise when what they do is right for themselves, but not what's right for others.

who wore her makeup so thick that you could have carved your initials into her face without drawing blood.

You may think me mad." "My dear fellow, we hardly know each other. I wouldn't dare to make such a judgment until we were better acquainted.

How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?

Anderson and Girgis insist that it is not, because the baker's "reason for refusing to bake same-sex wedding cakes is manifestly not to avoid contact with gay people on equal terms" (p. 191). But that's a strange claim, given that the bakers are refusing to sell gay people the very same items they sell to other customers. They do so precisely because they judge same-sex relationships to be morally inferior.