“Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.” IfsThinkingKnowsFactsPassionSituationKnow HowKnowingFailingJudgingDisciplinePrejudiceKnow YourselfAdjustment Author:Bernard Baruch
“People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and claim their stomach is upset the next morning. Does anyone fail to see that the world is an unjust judge, gracious and well disposed to its own children but harsh and rigorous towards the children of God?” PeopleIfsWorldWellsChildrenDoeNightNextWatchesMorningFailingJudgingClaimsCatholicDancingComplainingUpsetThirtyStomachHarshUnjustGraciousChild Of God Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.” PoliticalReligiousFailingJudgingIntegrityAuthorityStandardsConsciencePhilosophicalOrthodoxDelicacy Author:Lord Acton
“We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.” IfsThinkingKnowsMayUseRealityMoralProgressFailingGenerationsJudgingAchievementStandardsTestsCurrentsVigorousForward Thinking Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with God’s help. Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to the gospel as having a personal relationship with Jesus nor defines faith as a decision to ask Jesus to come into our heart, this concept of salvation fails to realize that everyone has a personal relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal standing before a righteous judge or as a justified coheir with Christ and adopted child of the Father.” HeartChildrenFactsHelpingAsksFatherJesusChristRealizingDecisionFailingJudgingDemandNewsConceptsCommitmentStandingSalvationCriminalsScriptureRighteousGood NewsSubmissionJustifiedAdoptedRelationship With GodPersonal RelationshipsPersonal Relationship With GodAdopted Children Book:Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
“The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.” PersonsActionPoorFailingJudgingHonorSucceedHonored Author:Francis Bacon
“Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?” IfsWorldWellsMatterUseShowsCoursesViewsFailingWorstTelevisionJudgingTvsDutyAspectMirrorsWesternOur SocietyControlledCommunistJudgedDictatorshipWestern WorldUncommitted Author:Margaret Thatcher
“I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than they might have had before. We suffer from being quick to judge, quick to make excuses for ourselves and others, and I would like the reader to feel that we are all, more or less, in a similar state as we love and disappoint one another, and that we try, most of us, as best we can, and that to fail and succeed is what we do.” FeelsTryingHumansMeanDifferentStatesMightSufferingUnderstandingFailingJudgingReaderSucceedExcuseDisappointWhat It Means To Be HumanQuick To Judge Author:Elizabeth Strout
“A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully marks the virtues which he sees in any person. A mindless man seeks out the vices and failings ... Even if you see someone sin with your own eyes, do not judge; for often even your eyes are deceived.” IfsMenInspirationalMindPersonsEyeChristianReligiousSinVirtueFailingJudgingMarkVicesOrthodoxDeceivedGrapesRipeSourMindlessDiscerningDo Not Judge Author:John Climacus