inner judgment Quotes

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Like many people, I think I'm my own worst critic. And I think I take a lot out in an internally abusive way, looking at how I measure up, which usually was never enough. I never, never was as good as someone else.

God sees hearts as we see faces.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

Send out judgment and low energy and that is what you'll attract back. Remember, when you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself as someone who needs to judge. The same applies to judgments directed at you.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.