Quotes about Judgment
Condemnation is only trying to fight fear with fear.
— Ted Dekker
We will not take possession of our birthright of never-ending joy until we find ourselves fully gratified with God and all his actions and judgments, loving and nonviolent toward ourselves and toward all our fellow seekers, and able to love everything God loves. And when we do achieve this state of surrender and love, it is the goodness of God that awakens it in us.
— Julian of Norwich
Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.
— Jurgen Moltmann
If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.
— Eli Yishai
Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the other hand, includes what most of us would consider difficult matters, such as punishment, correction and judgment. It also includes what most of us would consider positive matters, such as the fruit of the Spirit.
— Francis Frangipane
When morality is reduced to personal tastes, people exchange the moral question, What is good? for the pleasure question, What feels good?
— Francis J. Beckwith
Christians get very angry at those who sin differently than they do.
— Frank Viola
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
— Fred Craddock
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.
— Brene Brown
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
— Brennan Manning
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!
— Brennan Manning