Quotes about Criticism

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

I don't think I've been to any country where everybody was supportive - there's always churches or groups who don't like my theology or that we associate with this group or that group.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

No matter how good a life you lead, you won't please everyone. Someone will be glad to see you go.

And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy because she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the sort of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue wanted to open fire on them all. I think I encouraged this.

How can I create something that critics will criticize?

Eye contact, all by itself, is enough to throw your lizard brain into a tizzy. Imagine how scary it must be to set out to do something that will get you noticed, or perhaps even criticized.

Most criticism shared in the internet age is useless, or worse, harmful. It's useless because it often personalizes the criticism to be about the creator, not the work. And it's useless because most critics are unskilled and ungenerous.