Quotes about Evaluation

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

Maturity means, too, an ability to take criticism and evaluate it. When it is not of value, when it is not constructive, but destructive, one can forget it. But when it is constructive one must accept it and try to profit, even though hurt by it. Perhaps you were hurt because a certain person pointed out a fault and you did not want that person to think you had a fault. But, if you are mature enough, you will accept the criticism of those you love and who love you and learn from it.