Judging has no patience for imperfections in others.
She feels superior. She gossips, ignores, ridicules, and takes pleasure in others’ weaknesses. She is easily offended. On the outside she looks the part, but on the inside her heart is hard. Mother
Teresa said, “If you judge people you have no time to love them.”
Matthew 7:2 “For what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
The girl on the very left who looks as though she does not belong there is Judging. She is clean, modest, and holding her scriptures, but her heart is not kind. This Bible verse describes her, “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof” (2 Timothy 3:2-5). She is wearing beautiful pearls that look real, but like her, they are not genuine. She has her hair tightly pulled back and stands stiff, symbolizing her lack of patience for others imperfections and trials. She likes to gossip, exclude, hold grudges, be negative and take pleasure in other’s weaknesses. She gets annoyed easily. President Hinckley called this kind of person a “pickle sucker” (BYU Devotional, October 29, 1974).
"Church is a great place to judge others because there we can see each others faults and accuse them of hypocrisy." -C.S. Lewis
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Judging Others? Stop it! -Elder Uchtdorf
