Quotes about condemnation

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.

Martha Beck -

There’s a Chinese word that means “soul sister,” and that is the word I would use to address you in my heart. Listen to me, soul sister: Fate or luck or destiny already put you through hell once. Please don’t make it worse by condemning yourself. There is no choice that would have left you feeling no guilt. Every time I watch Adam struggle to speak, every time I see another child laugh and point at him, every time I watch his face fall as he realizes he is not going to be treated like the other

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.

Joseph Wheelan - Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda -

Trust and condemnation work hand in hand for both work on the concept of experience, of knowing it, observing it, realizing it, understanding it and finally accepting it in either of the two categories for the root remains the same 'Expectation'. Expectation leads one to think that 'I would achieve something if trust is there' and when the expectation is not achieved the process of condemning begins. Imagine a situation where the basis of doing something is not expectation but remains mystical i

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

It's futile to point the finger of condemnation and say, "Men... this" or "Women... that". Truth is, we are all guilty and innocent of many of life's trials.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon -

if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you!

Criss Jami - Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.

Robin R. Meyers - Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

Giordano Bruno -

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

Isabella Poretsis -

It is a shame that most people jump to simple condemnation before considering working towards salvation.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

Israelmore Ayivor -

God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to make you not to realize it that the storm is over. He wishes to keep you in condemnation even at the time you have to feel liberated.

Prem Prakash - The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying “It takes one to know one” when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness. The world is little more than a Rorschach blot in which we see our own desire systems projected. We see what we want to see. (116)

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics’ justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person’s lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.

Laurence Overmire - The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

Public condemnation goes a long way in establishing what is and what is not acceptable in a society. The public good will prevail if the public demands it.

Malcolm X -

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Criss Jami - Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.

J.E.B. Spredemann - A Secret Encounter

I'll tell you what God did do. He sent Jesus to die on the cross so you could be saved. To forgive your sins. That doesn't sound like condemnation that sounds like hope.

Sunday Adelaja -

If a man realizes who he is, he will not be envious of others or condemn them because he knows his own value, uniqueness and peculiar contribution

Criss Jami -

Let them spend their time condemning every action of persons they do not like; by this let them revoke their own condemnation licenses: no one will take them seriously when it comes time to condemn something that really needs to be condemned, and thus hear, hear, despite the excess noise, the reasonable voices may prevail.

Jean-Paul Sartre -

If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom. On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. So, in the bright realm of values, we have no excuses behind us, no justification before us. We are alone with no excuses.This is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemne

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.

Voltaire - Zadig

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

Erik Valeur - Det syvende barn

She considered compassion the highest virtue, but that night on Obstetric Ward B, it had had a twin sister whose face was invisible to Carla. The suffering women, however, had recognized it immediately: condemnation.

Harold Bloom - The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

Donald L. Hicks - Look into the stillness

So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones -

My dear friends, from the devil's standpoint there is not the slightest difference between being puffed up with pride in yourself or spending the whole of your time condemning yourself. Either way the devil is very well-pleased. Any concentration upon self in any shape or form is of the devil.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Never condemn yourself. Always affirm positive words into your life.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.

Stendhal - The Red and the Black

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

Travis Luedke - The Nightlife: Paris

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

Marty Rubin -

Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy.

Matt Chandler -

One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in.

Kevin DeYoung - Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

We get used to living in a state of mild disappointment with ourselves.

Tullian Tchividjian -

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

Bob Dylan -

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Moffat Machingura -

It happened on a Valentine night.Chris was an expert panther, a James Bond. Sarah was a lamb, a Virgin Mary. It was a night of mixed feelings and inner conflict. In her flesh she felt walking on liquid gold; but in her mind, heart and soul she could not help but hate herself for partaking of this “forbidden fruit” of pleasure. Not long was the thrill gone that her soul went sinking in the quick sands of condemnation, “did you have to do it?

Isaac Asimov - The Currents of Space

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself?

Jean-Paul Sartre - The Flies

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

Lee Goff -

The Church is full of Hypocrites!" Yes, it is, and thank God for that, it means the church is doing its job. The church wants hypocrites, adulterers, thieves, and more, for the church is where we receive healing. To condemn the church because it has failed members is to condemn a hospital because it's full of sick people. All are welcome; you are welcome here.

Thomas Watson -

If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us, and passes by many failures, so let us be sparing in our censures of others; let us look upon the weaknesses and indiscretions of our brethren with...a more tender, compassionate eye. How much God bears with us!

Mac Canoza -

Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.