Quotes About Judgment

She was pretty enough but somehow like dough that had not been allowed to rise.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? —A.J.F.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

Any woman refusing to take part in a patriarchal religion was considered a witch in those times. In your grandmother's, they couldn't hang anyone, but they could still frown down on them.

A version of this, though, is always going on from the moment two people's time and space collide: Subtle or direct, we are negotiating the private and public spheres. If the wounds are on the inside, we have some choice about what to reveal when, and to whom. If the scar is one the outside-the physical signature that announces itself with the nuance of a trumpet-people tend to think they know a great deal about you, whether they do or not.

Caldwell is the most expensive date in town," he quoted the other boys as saying. "She'll drink you under the table and she'll never put out.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

I refuse to forgive anyone because that implies that I'm superior-that I have a right to make a judgement.

the reason you give your body is what makes it right or makes it shameful, and only you can decide that.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

The thing of it was that the girls in my class who date boys do hardly anything else. Girls who I used to think were just boring I now think stupid beyond belief. I call them A-Girls and it is not a compliment.

Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly as I can tell, is forgiveness.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

When in doubt, look intelligent.

It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.

God's glory is not always immediate, but it is certain. He will be glorified for His holiness, for His defeat of Satan, for His righteous judgment, and for His grace to redeemed sinners (Revelation 5). This glory must have a backdrop of sin to be fully realized.

Sometimes in order to understand what is right, we have to first recognize what is wrong.

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

one of the main lessons is that people should not be separated into classes of the clean and the unclean, the worthy and the unworthy, the respectable and the unrespectable. … (missing) the point of their union with the Father, whose love is undiscriminating and inclusive, not gradated and excessive.