Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

That which we call sin in others, we call experiment in ourselves.

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Wrong is for other people.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.