Quotes about Criticism

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

The truth is, as an adult, I've experienced more racism from other black people than I have from white people. I've been hated because, as a black man, I love America, and am reluctant to criticize it. Since blacks are taught by their leaders and communities to hate whites and be angry at the United States, anything except the typical condemnations of whites and this country is offensive to them.

Great work is always shunned at first.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.

There is a danger in becoming an overly perfected meat eater only—a person who becomes spiritually fat on the meat and can become critical of a church or believer who is not on the same level of the deeper knowledge he or she is experiencing. This becomes pride.

When a man or woman decides to be a champion for God, they set themselves up for a lot of heat and criticism.

A critical person seldom recognizes his own shortcomings, only those of others (Matthew 7:3).

He who is influenced neither by the soaking in of slander nor by the assault of denunciation may indeed be called illumined.

Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.