Quotes about Judgment

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they want to write us off as superhuman and create a safe distance. One of my favorite quotes, written on my wall here in bold black marker, is from Dorothy Day: "Don't call us saints; we don't want to be dismissed that easily

Sometimes folks ask this question about giving to beggars and panhandlers with suspicion, speculating that homeless folks will just use their money for drugs or alcohol, which happens sometimes. But we don't always ask what CEOs are doing with our money when we give it to their companies, and they may also be buying drugs or pornography (or yachts) with our money! In

God, you alone are the judge of humankind, yet you call us to work toward justice. Help us make the judgments necessary for faithful living without becoming judgmental, that we may celebrate the mystery by which your justice is your mercy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.