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
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
Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.
— 1 Samuel 7:16
For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
— Psalm 9:4
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
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
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
You've got to make it easy for the judges to mark. It's got to be clean elements.
— Scott Moir
I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
— Sonia Sotomayor
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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