Quotes about Judgment

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.

What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.

You can be certain of what you've done, you can judge death, but to save a man — that takes more than six years of training, and in the end you can never be quite sure that it was you who saved him.

Christ had died for this man too: how could he pretend with his pride and lust and cowardice to be any more worthy of that death than the half-caste

You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless.

It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

In a community that gets life based on appearances, problems tend to be diagnosed in terms of how things appear.

What kind of holiness does the Western Church manifest today? To answer this, we need only ask: Are the prostitutes and tax collectors of our day attracted to us or repelled by us?

We are to derive worth from God alone and to love without judgment and without conditions on the basis of the unsurpassable fullness of life we get from God. Our only job is to love, not judge.

We judge others harshly in order to judge ourselves with approval.

Love is the central command in Scripture and judgment the central prohibition. Indeed, judgment is the "original sin" in Scripture. This is why the forbidden tree in the center of the garden—the prohibition around which life in the garden revolved—was called the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil."

Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created and saved us to do, namely, love like he loves.