Quotes about Condemnation

The realization of divine knowledge, selfless Love, utterly destroys the spirit of condemnation, disperses all evil, and lifts the consciousness to that height of pure vision where Love, Goodness, Justice are seen to be universal, supreme, all-conquering, indestructible.

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.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

Woe unto them who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!… Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Just as democratic government cannot be condemned because of errors and even crimes committed by men democratically elected, so trade-unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade-union leaders.

If God justify a man, who shall condemn him? But if God condemn him, who shall justify him?

Hans Selye, another great psychologist, said, "As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

If to condemn does not mean to make wicked, to justify does not mean to make good. And if condemnation is a judicial, as opposed to an executive act, so is justification. In condemnation it is a judge who pronounces sentence on the guilty.

Self-Righteousness

Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

Similarly, a primary objective for Christian educators and a major task of professional pastors, if not the foremost task, should be the wholesale elimination of condemnation and anti-intellectualism from the local church.