Quotes about Judgment

Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Lord, deliver me from the urge to open my mouth when I should shut it. Give me the wisdom to keep silent where silence is wise. Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

You can become a channel and a source of great inner strength. But you must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you; all that you have chosen without choosing and value without evaluating, accepting because of someone else's extrinsic judgment, rather than your own; all your self-doubt that keeps you from trusting and loving yourself or other human beings.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

The Puritan Thomas Brooks once wrote, "We know metals by their tinkling, and men by their talking."[113

Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.