Judgment will be rendered on the last day, and God will be the only Judge. We have no place or authority to judge people, cities, or nations. Many believers are pronouncing judgment on the same type of people Jesus liked and hung out with. He struggled with religious people, but he really liked sinners. In fact, Jesus was always protecting sinners from the religious people. His strongest judgments were against the people who were supposed to know God, but didn’t. On the other hand, He was very gracious with the people who didn’t know God and didn’t claim to.
Judging
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
Bryn Waddell
Cancel culture – “We will bring up every thing you’ve ever done wrong and attempt to ruin your past, present, and future with it. We call this morality, love, and compassion.”
Kingdom of God – “His blood has washed away every thing you’ve ever done wrong and erases your past, establishes your present, and brings hopeful security to your future. We call this the Gospel” One is not like the other.
John C. Maxwell
People change when they hurt enough they have to change, they learn enough they want to change, or they receive enough they are able to change.
James Caughey
I understand the design of such names as ‘fanatics, enthusiasts, madmen, etc.’ These names are fastened upon some of the zealous servants of God for the same purpose that the skins of wild beasts were put upon the primitive Christians by their persecutors, that they might more readily be torn in pieces by the hungry lions in the arena of the amphitheatre. Yet they were Christians still, notwithstanding these deforming skins, and so are we, though some cover us from head to foot with the hideous imputations of fanaticism.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men in the same way, but who, in fact, displays nothing but a lifeless image of the truth. He dons the halo of the fanatical devotee of truth who can make no allowance for human weaknesses; but, in fact, he is destroying the living truth between men. He wounds shame, desecrates mystery, breaks confidence, betrays the community in which he lives, and laughs arrogantly at the devastation he has wrought and at the human weakness which “cannot bear the truth.”
T.D. Jakes
We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.
Ed Silvoso
Preaching the truth without love is like giving someone a kiss when you have bad breath. No matter how good the kiss, no one will come back for a second one. This is what happens when, in anger or disgust, we tell the lost how terrible and depraved they are. Even though it all may be true, our negative approach blocks and distorts the central message of the Bible—that God sent His Son not to condemn the world, but to save it (see John 3:17).
Lysa TerKeurst
When to give grace? I’d rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.
Thomas a Kempis
He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.