Be careful who you criticize

W. Austin Gardner • April 7, 2022

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas à Kempis

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Thomas à Kempis

Humble yourself, and cease to care what men think.

A.W. Tozer

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?

A.W. Tozer

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

John Wesley

Mark Water, The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations (Alresford, Hampshire: John Hunt Publishers Ltd, 2000), 239.

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