Judging quotes
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"Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny."
"When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers."
"No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God."
"Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."
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"Before you judge me... I plead guilty"
"You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged."
"I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other."
"Be curious, not judgmental."
"And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state."
"If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong."
"The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge."
"If you don't know me, don't judge me."
"Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others."
"Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone."
"Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ."
"Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment."
"The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women"
"Let the Lord judge the criminals."
"So please don't judge me and I won't judge you 'cause it could get ugly before it gets beautiful."
"Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad."
"People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want."
"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."
"To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy."
"Don't judge a book by its cover"
