JUDGING
OTHERS

The first to present his case seems right, till another comes forward and questions him.

The Bible, Proverbs 18:17

Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters.

The Bible, Romans 14:1

Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls.

The Bible, Romans 14:4

Be quick to judge yourself and not to judge others.

Author unknown

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Leo Aikman

It is not failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

Confucius

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

George Eliot

It is the property of fools, to be always judging.

Thomas Fuller

I see no fault that I might not have committed myself.

Goethe

We evaluate others with a godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a godlike compassion.

Sydney J. Harris

Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.

Rabbi Hillel

Never look at the good or evil of others.

John of the Cross

If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take so much delight in noticing those of others.

La Rochefoucauld

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Longfellow

I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this – because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon, though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.

John Owen

Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins.

Sioux proverb

We keep other people’s vices in our eyes, our own we keep on our back.

Seneca

I would rather bite my tongue till it bleed, than pass judgment upon any man. Judgment we should leave to God, for out of the habit of sitting in judgment upon one’s neighbor grow self-satisfaction and arrogance, which are of the devil.

Tauler

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas à Kempis