Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

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

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

When we make mistakes they call it evil

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

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

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

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.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.

Liberals always feel your pain. Unless of course, they caused it.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!