Marianne Williamson Quotes

I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than they might have had before. We suffer from being quick to judge, quick to make excuses for ourselves and others, and I would like the reader to feel that we are all, more or less, in a similar state as we love and disappoint one another, and that we try, most of us, as best we can, and that to fail and succeed is what we do.

In my head, Carlisle’s kind eyes did not judge me. I knew that he would forgive me for this horrible act that I would do. Because he loved me. Because he thought I was better than I was. And he would still love me, even as I now proved him wrong.

Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?

The Human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. Every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again and again and again.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I love–of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Ages–back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter