"God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred."
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"One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person."
"Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs."
"For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately."
"We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior."
"To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle."
"In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things."
"You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging."
"It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all."
"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?"
"Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best."
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
"Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't."
"Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love."
"Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil."
"In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents."
"I do not judge the universe."
"Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher."
"Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security."
"As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."