Quotes about Judgment

The decree is dreadful indeed, I confess.

when we are angered by the sins of   others, we should beware lest a temptation of an opposite kind should   take possession of our minds.

We remain exposed to the judgment of God, we are bound by miserable chains, and therefore our exemption from guilt, becomes an invaluable freedom.

But we must so cherish moderation that we do not try to make God render account to us, but so reverence his secret judgments as to consider his will the truly just cause of all things.

And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge on which religion turns, so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself.

It is not fitting that God, before whose tribunal we must all finally stand, be subjected to our judgment — or rather to our foolish temerity.

I grant more: thieves and murderers and other evildoers are the instruments of divine providence, and the Lord himself uses these to carry out the judgments that he has determined with himself. Yet I deny that they can derive from this any excuse for their evil deeds. Why?

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?