No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny.
We're a very judgmental society.
Whether you like it or not, when you claim to be a Christian, the world takes note.
I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem — for purely religious purposes, of course — to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?
I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.
No degree of antiquity can give sanction to a usage bad in itself.
Jesus said, 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' Let's stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people's hearts. You and I don't, and we are all sinners.
Few books today are forgivable.
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
If God is watching us, we might as well be interesting.
Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
