Quotes about Judgment

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself. ~ Theology of Play, p.33

There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology - His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good - you can leave His ethical teaching intact.

I think anyone who's willing to be brutally honest with who they are and express themselves is always going to get the oddball label, the pyscho label, the twisted label. That's what happens.

My reputation was that I had bad BO, and I was poor, and I was ugly.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.