Condemnation Quotes

“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
― Bob Dylan

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”
― Malcolm X

“Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.”
― Giordano Bruno

“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.”
― Germany Kent

“If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Before you condemn someone else for a wrongful act, check your behavior and see if you too, have committed an act similar or even worse than the act that person has done. Then you won’t be in a position to judge.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)”
― Robin R. Meyers, Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

“We all have different perspectives to life. We all do take different decisions in life each day based on our convictions. We may take wrong or right decisions knowingly and or unknowingly. We may regard the decisions of others as right or wrong. We may have a right or wrong reasons to judge others. We have a choice to condemn or uplift others regardless of their situation. May we, instead of finding reasons to condemn, find reasons to uplift others.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness

“Little faith is enough to see the mountains of sin but not enough to see that Son of Righteousness that shall arise over them.”
― Ralph Bouma

“I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Once you acknowledge that accusations of guilt are always shouted loudest by the guilty, then you quickly realize that indictments are just another form of confession — that the things we hate and condemn in this world reveal a hell of a lot more about us than the things we love and cherish.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“Don't condemn me, but think of me as a person who sometimes reaches the bursting point!”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“Condemnation comes from guilt.
Conviction is born out of grace.

Condemnation leads you to conceal your sin.
Conviction urges you to confess it.

Condemnation results in remorse (feeling bad about what you did).
Conviction calls you to repentance (turning to go the other way).

Condemnation prompts you to rededicate.
Conviction demands full surrender.

Condemnation is a path to future failure.
Conviction is a highway to real change.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

“She had only to call and Mary would come, bringing all her faith, her youth and her ardour. Yes, she had only to call, and yet—would she ever be cruel enough to call Mary? Her mind recoiled at that word; why cruel? She and Mary loved and needed each other. She could give the girl luxury, make her secure so that she need never fight for her living; she should have every comfort that money could buy. Mary was not strong enough to fight for her living. And then she, Stephen, was no longer a child to be frightened and humbled by this situation. There was many another exactly like her in this very city, in every city; and they did not all live out crucified lives, denying their bodies, stultifying their brains, becoming the victims of their own frustrations. On the contrary, they lived natural lives—lives that to them were perfectly natural. They had their passions like everyone else, and why not? They were surely entitled to their passions? They attracted too, that was the irony of it, she herself had attracted Mary Llewellyn—the girl was quite simply and openly in love. 'All my life I've been waiting for something...' Mary had said that, she had said: 'All my' life I've been waiting for something...I've been waiting for you.'

Men—they were selfish, arrogant, possessive. What could they do for Mary Llewellyn? What could a man give that she could not? A child? But she would give Mary such a love as would be complete in itself without children. Mary would have no room in her heart, in her life, for a child, if she came to Stephen. All things they would be the one to the other, should they stand in that limitless relationship; father, mother, friend, and lover, all things—the amazing completeness of it; and Mary, the child, the friend, the beloved. With the terrible bonds of her dual nature, she could bind Mary fast, and the pain would be sweetness, so that the girl would cry out for that sweetness, hugging her chains always closer to her. The world would condemn but they would rejoice; glorious outcasts, unashamed, triumphant!”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“When we are shaming others for honouring their sensuality, we are perpetuating a problem that each of us is deeply desiring to heal within ourselves.”
― Lebo Grand

“She said, “You’re going to kill me, aren’t you? The Great Judge always orders the death of the leaders of the territory he takes over. I want you to know that I am ready for death, but I wish to make one request of my conqueror.”
It was not the moment to disillusion her about her fate. But there was no doubt that she was in a melodramatic state. He guessed he was about to have some sort of emotional appeal made to him. He said, in an even voice, “Any reasonable request, which does not conflict with my instructions, will be granted to your highness.”
She came toward him, swaying a little, and there was a hint of imminent tears in the way she held her mouth, and in her voice, as she said, “General, to you this conquest of Jorgia may only be an episode, but for me it is the end of an era. In my death throes, I have wild thoughts about many things.
To me, being the conquered is laden with symbolic meanings, and somehow the conqueror is interwoven into these symbols. I am woman, conquered, and you are man, conqueror. Although I had no more than a fleeting glimpse of you . . . earlier . . . I had then the feeling of fear and hate . . . and love.”
He didn’t have to lock the door. That had been done automatically on his earlier instructions.
He lifted the woman lightly into his arms and carried her into the bedroom. The fire that was in her made her reach for him. She had strength, this woman, at this moment, as she grasped at him and pulled him down.
In the pale light of dawn, they lay side by side, exhausted but not asleep, and she said, “You’ll never forget me, will you?”
“Never,” said Marin.
“You may kill me now,” she said, sighing. “I feel a rightness in me. The defect is consummated.”
And he thought, wonderingly, Perhaps it had been two condemned people clutching at a last fling of life. For, unless he could find a solution to his problem, he was really condemned. And she thought she was.”
― A.E. van Vogt, The Mind Cage

“Separate associated emotion from the useful [meaning] and a whole new world is revealed.

Art, also language.”
― Xalaristw

“Of course, each belief must have its biblical support, and it must strengthen the faith of others to be valid, but if we are supposed to not cause one another to stumble, then why are we CONDEMNING each other for different but legitimate Christian beliefs? I hope conservatives don’t condemn/limit feminists and feminists do not condemn/limit conservatives!”
― Lucy Carter, Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

“The first thing is to learn to love yourself. This is the first step to get rid of all the teaching and condemnations of the religions. This allows you to not feel guilty about anything, because nature has given you so much that
should be accepted with joy. Loving yourself means that you throw out all the garbage
of religious condemnation, rejection and repression. ”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Call of the Heart 

“History condemns those who give the orders. It forgets those who commit the crimes.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“Some sects of Progressive Christianity have devolved into a religion in which Jesus condemns his own followers, Christians, but praises everyone else in the world. It could be inferred in this religion that he is revoking his Kingship (thus turning his back on those who regard him as King); it could be inferred in this religion that instead, mankind is King.”
― Criss Jami

“If we allow ourselves to perceive each other as enemies,
to be enemies,
and to behave as if we are,
there is no hope.

We have to have empathy.
We have to believe there is hope.”
― Shellen Lubin

“It is easy for one to be a hypocrite unashamedly because so often knowledge leads to justification: we know ourselves and our own reasons behind our actions; whereas a lack of knowledge, or uncertainty towards the other, is largely replaced by suspicion of something darker when others do the same.”
― Criss Jami