The root and origin of sin is the arrogance in which man wants to be his own and his neighbor’s judge.--------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: The root and origin of sin is the arrogance in which one wants to be one's own and one's neighbor’s...
Nothing reaches people like being loved when they least deserve it; and nothing pushes people away like being judged when they don't. from Drop the Stones: When Love Reaches the Unlovable
As his ministry progresses, Jesus is attacked in ways that are both more persistent and more threatening. The attacks come from those who are comfortable with things as they are and do not want their own role as self-righteous judges to be subverted by this One whose...
I am sometimes amazed, even alarmed, at the extent to which people judge ministers by their preaching, and preaching by its rhetoric. To do so is to make the entirely spurious but nearly universal assumption that God is better served by a poet than by an accountant....
In my own conversations with Christians, I find that almost all of them talk approvingly about love for others, some talk confidently about God’s love for us, but few are willing to talk about their love for God… They judge that it is wrong not to love people, but...
Far from putting doubts to rest, religion has the effect of intensifying them. It judges those who profess faith more harshly than it judges unbelievers. It holds them up to a standard of conduct so demanding that many of them inevitably fall short… For those who take...
The Church cannot be properly judged from outside, from the viewpoint of a neutral observer, but only from within, by those who live in and with the Church. from The Church
Thinking is difficult. That’s why most people judge.