Quotes About Judgment

When we judge others we leave no room to love them.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

My people would love it if I smiled more, if I was more 'approachable.'

People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

Consequences are a concept for the sober.

I'll just get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person.

apology. "It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

You could tell he was a bad guy because he didn't have a tan

I'll never fully understand the agenda of angry breast-feeders.

Okay. Here's what I've learned. You can live your life being nice to everyone, you can be a loving son, a moderately decent student, never do hard drugs or impregnate anyone's daughter, be an all-around good guy and live in harmony with all of God's creatures. But crash one stolen Mercedes in front of the police station when you're fifteen years old and they'll never let you forget it.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date. By contrast, our modern relativism begins by asserting that making judgments about how to live is impossible, because there is no real good, and no true virtue (as these too are relative). Thus relativism's closest approximation to "virtue" is "tolerance.

To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause? That is hell. And once in hell it is very easy to curse being itself and no wonder. But it's not justifiable and that's why the king of the damned is a poor judge of being.

there are catastrophes lurking at the extremes of every moral continuum.

And perhaps because, as unfamiliar and strange as it sounds, in the deepest part of our psyche, we all want to be judged.

What shall I say to a faithless brother. The king of the damned is a poor judge of being. It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world, a handyman's dream if ever there was one, is to fix yourself (as we discussed in rule 6). Anything else is presumptuous. Anything else risks harm stemming from your ignorance and lack of skill.

And the story suggests something more: unchaperoned, and left to our own untutored judgment, we are quick to aim low and worship qualities that are beneath us—in this case, an artificial animal that brings out our own animal instincts in a completely unregulated way. The old Hebrew story makes it clear how the ancients felt about our prospects for civilized behaviour in the absence of rules that seek to elevate our gaze and raise our standards.

Those who have lied enough, in word and action, live there, in hell—now. Take a walk down any busy urban street. Keep your eyes open and pay attention. You will see people who are there, now. These are the people to whom you instinctively give a wide berth. These are the people who are immediately angered if you direct your gaze toward them, although sometimes they will instead turn away in shame.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date.

The great majority of us cannot listen; we find ourselves compelled to evaluate, because listening is too dangerous. The first requirement is courage, and we do not always have it.

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

It's *AS IF* there is a powerful figure in the sky, who sees all, and is judging you. Giving up something you value seems to make him happy--and you want to make him happy, because all hell breaks loose if you don't. So, practice sacrificing, and sharing, until you become expert at it, and things will go well for you.