Quotes about Criticism

But some worthless men said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him and brought him no gifts; but Saul remained silent about it.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.

So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?

All our enemies open their mouths against us.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,’

Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?