Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.

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

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

He who hates vice hates men.

I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.

If you would judge, understand.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

My aim in life is not to judge.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first job is to see and hear and think about what I've seen and heard.

Sometimes circumstance blinds us at first from seeing people for who they really are.