49 Quotes About Condemning Others

Giving people labels and stereotypes throughout life seem like second nature. However, no matter your background or where you come from, trying to avoid judgement on others is the most effective way to have an open and transparent conversation. Here are some quotes about condemning others to encourage you.

“A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.”

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

“As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations.”

“Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.”

“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.”

“By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”

“Characters carrying the playwright’s disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.”

“Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing.”

“Condemnation will defeat us but conviction unlocks our faith to face the challenge ahead.”

“Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”

“Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.”

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”

“God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to make you not to realize it that the storm is over.”

“How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education.”

“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter?”

“If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom.”

“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.”

“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.”

“If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they’re not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.”

“I’ll tell you what God did do. He sent Jesus to die on the cross so you could be saved. To forgive your sins. That doesn’t sound like condemnation; that sounds like hope.”

“It is a shame that most people jump to simple condemnation before considering working towards salvation.”

“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”

“Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.”

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

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

“Never condemn yourself. Always affirm positive words into your life.”

“No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it.”

“One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in.”

“Only sad, little people condemn the pleasures of others.”

“Perhaps, if you weren’t so busy regarding my shortcomings, you’d find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. ”

“Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.”

“So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.”

“So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed.”

“Someone’s forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.”

“The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.”

“The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.”

“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.”

“To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.”

“To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.”

“We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.”

“We all have different perspectives on 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 earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics’ justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation.”

“We get used to living in a state of mild disappointment with ourselves.”

“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.”

“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.”

“When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.”

“Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.”

“You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.”

“You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.”

Finding a way to have humility in life, confessing your flaws and failures is just one way to avoid being a hypocrite in life.