Quotes about Judging
Yet Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest use. God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
— Oswald Chambers
The diverse individuals in the community are no longer incentives for talking and judging and condemning, and thus excuses for self-justification. They are rather cause for rejoicing in one another and serving one another.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
— Matthew 19:28
John Wesley said this well: "The judging that Jesus condemns here is thinking about another person in a way that is contrary to love."3
— Scot McKnight
Justification is regarding and judging a person to be righteous for the sake of another, even Jesus Christ the Lord. Sanctification is actually making a person inwardly righteous, though it may be in a very small degree.
— JC Ryle
For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
— Psalm 9:4
The case being tried involves a question of ultimate truth — the question of who God is and where he stands; and for just that reason, it is God who will inevitably do the judging.
— Fleming Rutledge
Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.
— 1 Samuel 7:16
so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
— Luke 22:30
Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.
— William Law
Jesus' instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, "Don't." The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm nothing is accomplished by it. The effect of criticism is the dividing up of the strengths of the one being criticized.
— Oswald Chambers
For the first time he was face to face with his hovering dread: he was judging where he still adored.
— Edith Wharton