C. S. Lewis Quotes About Judging

• God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Perseverance, Hard Times, What Matters

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

• Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Judging, Know How

• We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Men, Judging

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

• Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

  C. S. Lewis

  Judging, Choices, Action

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.84, HarperCollins UK

• That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Judging

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.84, HarperCollins UK

• See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.

  C. S. Lewis

  Judging, Bears, Dens

  C. S. Lewis (2005). “The wisdom of Narnia”

• The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Should Have

• Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

  C. S. Lewis

  Skills, Judging, Results

  "A Preface to Paradise Lost". Book by C. S. Lewis. Chapter 2: "Is Criticism Possible?", 1942.

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