Quotes About Judgment

His remorse and better judgment arrived, late as usual, like party guests riding in just after the social disaster of the season has already erupted.

is, we have a duty to accept on faith, but also a duty to weigh and judge. Once you insist that some mundane thing was actually the miraculous hand of the gods, why not treat everything that way? When you start finding messages from the heavens in your breakfast sausages, you've thrown aside your responsibility to use your head.

Discretion is a pastime for other people.

You've reached that certain age where many boys seem to just sort of fold up their better judgment and set it aside for a few years.

there's no talking sense to sentiment

Given such an emphasis on the written Scriptures in the prophetic tradition, understanding the prophets as authors of books, rather than merely proclaimers of divine judgment and salvation in particular social settings, should be the central focus of the question of preaching from the prophets.

I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.

Q: Who makes more money, a drug dealer or a hooker? A: A hooker, because she can wash her crack and reuse it.

sometimes we love what we wrote, critics hate it. Sometimes we hate what we wrote, critics love it.

It would be foolish, I think, to judge a whole people by the actions of a few vile souls. Foolish as well as misguiding.

Don't become so attached to your ideas that you lose objectivity.

It must be so easy to judge the decisions of someone else when you sit back and do nothing.

Choices have consequences.

You think I'm some inbred trailer-trash hick that watches the Springer show?

It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.

Good decisions mad on bad data are just bad decisions you don't know about...yet.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system--the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges--would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. (James 2:12–13)

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. (Matt. 7:1–2 NIV)

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. (1 John 4:16–19 NIV)

But he [Jesus] has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. (Heb. 9:26–28 NIV)