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• We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Christian, Spiritual

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• As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In our council it seemed to us far otherwise. No one agreed to the course which you thought should be taken. Rather, we all judge that the mercy and grace of God ought to be denied to no man born

  Cyprian

  Taken, Men, Thinking

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• Like the vast majority of Americans, I've opposed same-sex marriage, but I've also opposed unjust discrimination against anyone, for racial or religious reasons, or for sexual preference. Americans are a tolerant, generous, and kind people. We all oppose bigotry and disparagement. But the debate over same-sex marriage is not a debate over tolerance. It is a debate about the purpose of the institution of marriage and it is a debate about activist judges who make up the law rather than interpret the law.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Sex, Gay

  "A Primary Factor". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 14, 2006.

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• Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.

  Richard Dooling

  People, Criminals, Lawyer

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• Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wise, Truth

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• What? You're thinking for yourself? You're deciding on your own? You're applying your own yardsticks, your own judgments, your own values? Who do you think you are, anyway? And, indeed, that is precisely the question you are answering.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Thinking

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.122, Penguin

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• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  Walter Benjamin

  Public Opinion, Matter, Judgment

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.433, Harvard University Press

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• Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Song, Doors, Snap Judgment

  "Think fast" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2005.

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• God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security.

  Lil Wayne

  Needs, Way, Judge Me

  Song: Nightmares Of The Bottom, Album: Tha Carter IV, 2011

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• O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

  Jan Hus

  Father, Law, Example

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• When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, and they still judge one another according to the demands of that role as a guardian in a gang struggling for survival against encroaching doom. Everything that is specifically about being a man-not merely a person-has to do with that role.

  Jack Donovan

  Struggle, Men, Survival

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• Don't judge me because I sin differently from you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Don't Judge Me, Judge Me, Sin

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• One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Character, Reflection, Views

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• My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Teacher, Said, Worst

  Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Ashes”, p.24, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

  Mira Grant

  People, Interesting, Normal

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• You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

  Haruki Murakami

  World, Like You, Standards

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• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Biblical, Church, Foundation

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• Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

  Kristin Cashore

  Laughter, Trying, Enjoy

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.84, Penguin

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• It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Race, Racist, Discrimination

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• Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

  Susan Sontag

  School, Assessment, Choices

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.135, Macmillan

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• O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Book, Men

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• She didn’t judge him or hate him for things that weren’t his fault. She accepted him and that was the greatest miracle of all.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Miracle, Faults

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)”, p.2701, Macmillan

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• The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing capacity to judge, to criticize, and to bring tremendous harm to ourselves. If we can harden our heart against ourselves and meet our most tender feelings with anger and condemnation, we simultaneously armor our heart against the possibility of gentleness, love and healing.

  Wayne Muller

  Children, Pain, Healing

  Wayne Muller (1993). “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Who can judge the judge?

  Kami Garcia

  Beautiful Chaos

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2011). “Beautiful Chaos”, p.293, Hachette UK

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• Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Opportunity, Wish, Quarrels

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