Condemnation Quotes - Page 2

• There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Life, Motivational, Wisdom

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• If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Mean, Justice

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.590

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• Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Long, Suffering, Spirit

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• I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

  Clay Aiken

  God, Ideas, People

  Clay Aiken (2004). “Learning to Sing”, W Publishing Group

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• Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.

  Steven Furtick

  Regret, Passivity Is, Should Have

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• If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, People, Feelings

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• Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Criminals, Lax

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• Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.

  Andrew Wommack

  People, Grace, Guilt

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• The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.

  Michael Horton

  Sin

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• I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness, when they don't have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God's going to yank His relationship from them

  Alan Chambers

  Thinking, Holiness, Helping

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Simple, Effort, Social

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• As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

  Hans Selye

  Fear, Self Esteem, Approval Of Others

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Issues, Life And Death, God Life

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1985). “A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen”, p.40, Ignatius Press

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• The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.

  Ann Voskamp

  Want, Remedy, Facets

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.149, Zondervan

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• Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Failure, Rights

  "Bill Maher Isn’t the Only One Who Misunderstands Religion" by Reza Aslan, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2014.

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• When I tour I'm going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or a condemnation of that country's policies. My presence in a country is an effort to connect with people through playing music.

  Moby

  Country, Israel, Play

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• Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Christian, Wise

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.77, Loyola Press

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• Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

  Ayn Rand

  Opposites, Two, Tolerance

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.135, Penguin

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• I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

  Mike Pence

  Israel, America, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

  John Foxe

  Use, Littles, Wealth

  John Foxe (2012). “Foxe's Book Of Martyrs”, p.89, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspaper should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

  Hugo Black

  New York, Father, Views

  "Supreme Court, 6-3, Upholds Newspapers on Publication of Pentagon Report". archive.nytimes.com. July 1, 1971.

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• The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Water, Balance, Holiness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

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• Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Home, Europe, Financial

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• Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

  Stephen Bayley

  Design, Rich, Process

  Stephen Bayley (1991). “Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things”, Pantheon

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• Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Believe, Giving

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