Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, ‘Leonard, you took Me too seriously’?
– Leonard Ravenhill
Chastisement | Criticism | The Gospel
The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.
– Warren Wiersbe
Praise | Pride | Criticism
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful.
– Blaise Pascal
Criticism
You may find hundreds of faultfinders among professed Christians; but all their criticism will not lead one solitary soul to Christ.
– Dwight L. Moody
Criticism
It varies with different personalities. Some will keep quiet. They have not yet attained freedom from natural shyness and fear. They may sit next to those talkative believers and criticize them in heart, but their silence does not make them any less soulish. Because they are not rooted in God and have not therefore learned how to be hidden in Him, carnal people long to be seen. They experience unspeakable joy whenever recognized and respected.
– Watchman Nee
Carnality | Hypocrisy | Criticism
Many times men criticize us when we actually are following the Lord. Outside praise or criticism is inconsequential; but the testimony of our quickened conscience is momentous.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Criticism
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
– Assorted Authors
Christianity | Criticism
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
– C.S. Lewis
Children | Criticism
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Education | Character | Criticism
Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.
– Rick Warren
Suffering | Criticism | Stress