Quotes about Judgment
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.
— William Faulkner
Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
— Erica Jong
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
— Marquis de Sade
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
— Martha Graham
many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
— Martin Luther
Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins.
— Martin Luther
Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.
— Martin Luther
Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.
— Martin Luther
It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public, or you did not reflect that it was Luther you were writing against, whom I hope you allow nonetheless to have some acquaintance with Holy Writ and some judgment in respect of it.
— Martin Luther
trust not in any who exalt you, but in those who humiliate you. For this is the judgment of God: "He hath cast down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble.
— Martin Luther
that prudence of yours makes you veer about, determined not to commit yourself to either side, but to pass safely between Scylla and Charybdis; with the result that, finding yourself battered and buffeted by the waves in the midst of the sea, you assert everything you deny and deny everything you assert.
— Martin Luther
here where we are concerned not with the dogma of Scripture and the Corycian cavern only, but in very truth with the awful secrets of the Divine Majesty (namely, why he works in the way we have said), here you smash bolts and bars and rush in all but blaspheming, as indignant as possible with God because you are not allowed to see the meaning and purpose of such a judgment of his.
— Martin Luther