Aaron Neville Quotes

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not judge. Beyond his normal tetchiness, there were no more than a half-dozen moments of actual condemnation from him. He understood lies and also why you lied, and there was an absolution there that is very, very appealing.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

I think one ought always to be indulgent towards other people, as I always think, if we had not been well brought up and well taken care of, we might also have gone astray. That is always my feeling. Yet it is always right to show that one does not like to see what is obviously wrong; but it is very dangerous to be too severe, and I am certain that as a rule such people always greatly regret that in their youth they have not been as careful as they ought to have been.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further measure is how it treats those who deeply disappoint it.

I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.

We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.

I learned long ago not to tear into anyone for a mistake.

judge not that ye be not judged

Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.