Quotes on Judging

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

This topic of judging others could actually be taught in a two-word sermon. When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it! It’s that simple. We simply have to stop judging others and replace judgmental thoughts and feelings with a heart full of love for God and His children.

More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: 'Give them something to eat.'

If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge?

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens.

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

And he never judges someone else's suffering.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.