1. “Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.” ~William Shakespeare, Henry VI
2. “How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.” ~Thomas à Kempis
3. “Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.”
~Laurence Sterne, 1760
4. “The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.” ~Jane Addams
5. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves.”
~ Carl Gustav Jung
6. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
~ Mother Teresa
7. “We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.”
~ Ian Percy
8. “Hypocrisy is like a disease – it will poison your heart and mind until all you can see is what others are doing wrong, not the fact that you may be in much more danger than they of falling off the straight and narrow.”
~ Me
9. “How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
~ Jesus, from Luke 6:42
10. “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.”
~ Paul the Apostle, from Romans 2:1
Betwixt and Between 