judging

Playing is more than the act of judging the possibility of defeat or victory, playing is the probability of hope we will have victory.

Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the "Christian Nation"!

Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.

You can__ live your life for someone else, and you can__ let someone else tell you how to live your life. People spend so much time judging the shit out of each other__t__ a waste of energy.

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.

If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less.

A first impression works like a magic mirror; it reflects what intrigues us rather than echoing a truthful picture. A first impression is the creating of an imagined character born from personal desires, perceptions, and biases. Though sparked by an introduction to a real, living, breathing individual, the person remains a mystery long after parting. It is a fictitious ghost masked with similar features that remains. A first impression is rarely accurate; therefore, it should never be trusted.

What would it be like to live as a butterfly, being admired by the world for your color and beauty and grace? What would it be like to live as a spider, having people shriek and jump and throw a shoe at the very notice of you?I have tasted both__ooks of desire and repulsion.How sad it is that we judge a life by such a trivial thing as appearance.

Never judge another knight without first knowing the strength and cunning of the dragons he fights.

Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. _I notice when the sky is blue. _I smile down at children. _I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor. _I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own. _And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't. _I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either.

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.

If my mind was in your body going through the same circumstances. I would act differently, and likewise. Judging in nature is separation.

We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute in judgment, but they are as yet very immature in heart. He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more; he overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and, therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it. ... I know we who are young beginners in grace think ourselves qualified to reform the whole Christian church. We drag her before us, and condemn her straightway; but when our virtues become more mature, I trust we shall not be more tolerant of evil, but we shall be more tolerant of infirmity, more hopeful for the people of God, and certainly less arrogant in our criticisms.

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.

Those who are critical don__ like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.