Quotes about Judgment

When morality is reduced to personal tastes, people exchange the moral question, What is good? for the pleasure question, What feels good?

Christians get very angry at those who sin differently than they do.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Don't sit on your patio in the high noon of your tranquility and make light of the huts that people build in the midnight of their desperation.

When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable.

On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

The spirit of Caiaphas lives on in every century of religious bureaucrats who confidently condemn good people who have broken bad religious laws. Always for a good reason of course: for the good of the temple, for the good of the church. How many sincere people have been banished from the Christian community by religious power brokers as numb in spirit as Caiaphas!

How readily we push Jesus Christ off his judgment seat and take our place there to pronounce on others (though we've neither the knowledge nor the authority to judge anyone.) None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know, we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another.

The tendency in legalistic religion is to mistrust God, to mistrust others, and consequently, to mistrust ourselves.

The number of people who have fled the church because it is too patient or compassionate is negligible; the number who have fled because they find it too unforgiving is tragic.

Impressions form images that become fixed ideas that give birth to prejudices. Anthony De Mello said, "If you are prejudiced, you will see that person from the eye of that prejudice. In other words, you will cease to see this person as a person. The Pharisee within spends most of his time reacting to labels, his own and others".

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.