Quotes about Judgment

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions.

Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).