Quotes about Criticism

There's enough judgment in the world; there's enough criticism and faultfinding. Let's be lifters. Let's be encouragers. Let's help someone else experience the God who comes down to lift people up.

You've been made in the image of God. When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God's creation. You're saying, "God, You didn't do too good on me." No, God wasn't having an off day when He created you. He calls you a masterpiece.

You have to pass the test of overlooking insults, ignoring what people say. They wouldn't be talking about you if you weren't making a difference, if you weren't a leader, if you weren't shining brightly.

Quit being frustrated by people who are not for you, people that make negative comments and try to discredit you, marginalize you. You're not defined by what they say. They don't control your destiny. That's just noise. Don't give them the time of day.

Your job is not to try and make people like you. Your job is not to try to change people's minds about you. Your job is to run your race, to be who God has called you to be, and not worry about the critics and the naysayers.

What happens too often when we criticize someone is that we accompany it with strong, negative feelings. We criticize without ever mentioning how many other things we appreciate about our spouse.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

A mature Christian recognizes that correcting every wrong on the Internet would take more hours than a full-time job. If you snap every time your great-aunt's friend's cousin thrice-removed makes a snarky comment about "all the contradictions in the Bible," it will consume you and your joy.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.