"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."
Charles Spurgeon
"God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Why do you pass judgement on your brothers and sisters? Why do you seek to despise them? For some day we will all stand before the judgement seat of God."
Romans 14:10
"In judging others a man labors in vain, is often wrong, and easily sins; but in judging and examining himself, he always labors fruitfully."
Thomas à Kempis
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
C.S. Lewis
This would be a much happier world if people would just accept the fact that they are human, and little different from one another— imperfect, and weak, and erring, and fallen. And without any privilege or exceptions over their fellows, in the eyes of God.
Then they might repent of their faults and seek forgiveness, rather than spending their time judging others, harshly and with presumption, as their inferiors. Then they would not so readily blind themselves, while seeking to justify their special privileges and compensations which they and those who think like them grant to each other. Then they might see their acts as the theft and deception that they are.
Our exceptional markets seem a bit inconstant and inconsistent these days. It may be difficult to diagnose, but is there any doubt that these US markets have ADHD brought on by repeated sugar highs from the Fed and an appalling lack of stable and steady regulation?
Our judgement of ourselves and others, and our place as a people and a nation in this world, is almost uniformly appalling in its clumsiness and self-serving biases.
Is there any doubt that those who most think themselves to be exceptional are in fact the most thoroughly foolish and blinded by pride?
See you tomorrow.
Have a pleasant evening.
