Reflections
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
~ John Chrysostom
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906-1945, pastor and Nazi dissident
The current popular notion that judging others is in itself a sin leads to such inappropriate maxims as ‘I’m okay and you’re okay.’ It encourages a conspiracy of moral indifference which says, “If you never tell me that anything I’m doing is wrong, I’ll never tell you that anything you’re doing is wrong.”
~ Elisabeth Elliot, missionary and speaker, Leadership, Vol. 3, no. 1
If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1884-1980, writer & socialite
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labor to give no offence and the other to labour to take none.
~ Richard Sibbes, 1577-1635, Church of England pastor and theologian
We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.
~ Kamand Kojouri, contemporary author & poet
…the only way there could ever be reconciliation is going to be a personal revival. A personal revival, where God cleanses the heart and the attitudes and the soul of a person, and in many ways that’s why I could learn to forgive.
~ Robert Soto, 1952- , pastor and Apache tribal leader