Quotes about Judgment
I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
— John Donne
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
— Jennifer Aniston
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
— Cicero
So now, when anyone says that such and such is done too quickly, you can reply that they have looked at it too quickly.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
— Virginia Woolf
If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
— Louis Bourdaloue
If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, that brought into this world a world of woe, sin and her shadow death, and misery, Death's harbinger.
— John Milton
women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?
— Philip Yancey
Don't judge Christ by those of us who imperfectly bear his name.
— Philip Yancey
According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity.
— Philip Yancey
I do not know if that theory is correct, but I do know that singling out one behavior as "sin" and emphasizing it over others provides a convenient way of dodging our own need for grace. High-minded moralism and shrill pronouncements of judgment may help fundraising, but they undermine a gospel of grace.
— Philip Yancey