Quotes about Judgment
You can fall in love with anybody — a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
— Margaret Atwood
We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.
— AW Pink
You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true characters!
— Anne Frank
I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.
— Anne Frank
Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should, stupid, cowardly, calculating, etc., etc. All day long I hear nothing but what an exasperating child I am, and although I laugh it off and pretend not to mind, I do mind. I wish I could ask God to give me another personality, one that doesn't antagonize everyone.
— Anne Frank
How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.
— Anne Frank
I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
— Anne Lamott
Mercy means that we no longer constantly judge everybody's large and tiny failures, foolish hearts, dubious convictions, and inevitable bad behavior. We will never do this perfectly, but how do we do it better?
— Anne Lamott
Anything that leaves you more fearful, more isolated, more disconnected from other people, more full of judgment or self-hatred, is not of God, does not follow the Rule of Love—and you should stop doing it.
— Anne Lamott
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
— Anne Lamott
Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)
— Anne Lamott
God's love is not the same as human love. [Our] love...is fraught with conditions, delusion, and judgment.
— Anne Lamott