judgment

judgment, as it is portrayed in the parables of Jesus (not to mention the rest of the New Testament) never comes until after acceptance: grace remains forever the sovereign consideration. The difference between the blessed and the cursed is one thing and one thing only: the blessed accept their acceptance and the cursed reject it; but the acceptance is already in place for both groups before either does anything about it.

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

Matthew once said to me, after one of my more finely worded rants about stupid people who have the wrong opinions, "Nadia, the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it." Damn.

Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

You wouldn't believe it, but apart from a few drunks, a few sex murderers and other men who get into the papers where they are designated as criminals of passion, no normal man with normal drives has the obvious idea that a normal woman would like to be quite normally raped. Part of it is that men aren't normal, but people are incapable of even imagining all the ramifications of the male disease, so accustomed have they become to men's mistakes in judgment and their phenomenal lack of instinct.

Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun,So depe may impressioun be take.

I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.

How can a God who said, __ove your enemies_ spend so much time killing His own?

All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.

You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.

Presenting a humble façade gains trust; flattery appeals to ego; combine the two to gain an ego-based trust within someone, and you will find in your hands a judgement clouding tool second only to love.

Talk to ourselves in the same way we'd talk to someone we'd love. Yes, you made a mistake. You're human. You don't have to do it like anyone else does. Fixing it and making amends will help. Self-loathing will not. Reach out to someone we trust--a person who has earned the right to hear our story and who has the capacity to respond with empathy.

To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.

To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.

There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.