Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not fear of what is bad.

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to...

You have to put in the time, but more important is the judgment. The direction you’re heading in matters more than how fast you drive.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side.

If you love people, you have no desire to judge them.

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

God has judged me all my life. But that is God’s privilege, my lady. Not yours.

Having a religion doesn’t make a person love or not love others. It doesn’t make a person accept or not accept others. It doesn’t make a person befriend or not befriend others.Being without a religion...

One of the Christian’s biggest fears is appearing ‘too Christian’. God forbid, because that’s often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being ‘one of them’.

Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference...

People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.

I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the “invaluable mental power we call judgment.

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste… [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems...

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Few Fed officials would be willing to prejudge the question, even if they have a personal judgment of how they expect the economy to perform. Rather, they’d prefer to wait for the data to inform...

I am never going to be less sensitive so that you feel better about being judgmental toward me.

Excuses will become self-refuting. No man who does not believe that Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God can, in his desperation and love for sin, reasonably use and misconstrue Jesus’ words that unless...

Feeling bad is not the problem.The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,and start feeling better about feeling bad,then pretty soon you’ll...

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don’t actually do anything.

The vice president’s lawyers have gone to war, in my judgment, against the men and women who serve in our armed services,

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

We do not want to have mercy for the things God has under judgment. We do not want to fall in the ditch on the otherside of unsanctified mercy.

Judgment, then, is not an impersonal, legalistic process. It is a matter of love, and it is something we choose for ourselves. Nor is punishment a vindictive act. God’s “curses” are not expressions of hatred,...

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. … How can I...

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one’s judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool...

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever...

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act...

Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own satisfaction in the classroom. My first years there, however, I met with little warmth. In part, it...

Any number of celebrities are dogged by “gay rumors” because we cannot quite place them into a given category. We act like placing these people in categories will have some impact on our lives, or...

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

I’m not going to pretend I’m something I’m not so that you like me more.

I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything.

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person...

You understand nothing,” I told him with a weary shake of the head, but I would not try to make him understand. That there was no justification for it: the murder of another, no matter...

It’s disappointing that the council would second-guess our judgment.

(The historian) “was able to disapprove without being astonished. She could reject and still understand.

We can never truly or completely know or feel what someone else thinks. This is why we must leave the judging to the only One who can know another person’s heart.

people will be more careful not to rush to judgment when false claims are made.

Judgement is often no more than a confession of ignorance.

The only prescription for morality is this: Remember that every woman could have been your mother, every girl could be your daughter. Remember that every man could have been your father, every boy could be...

The Law of God was never a ladder for unsaved people to climb up to heaven. It was always a pattern of life for God’s people who had been saved from judgment by the blood...