Sentences with phrase «not judgmentalism»

Discernment is not judgmentalism, it is wisdom; but discernment includes the recognition of our own sinful tendencies, including the instinctive self - righteous response, and reminds us, as Sister Helen Prejean discovered in her ministry to those awaiting capital punishment in prison that «people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.»

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They conveyed to me that I ought not be intimidated by religious people who are judgmental, for their judgmentalism has very little of God in it.

These ministers represent the kind of Christian that makes me reluctant to say to people I don't know that I'm a Christian and the kind of speakers for the faith that drove all my children out of churches because they would not put up with such judgmentalism, cruelty, and, too often, drive for power and money.

And when that happens, respond with love and care, not with judgmentalism and criticism.

If bitterness does not take over, one can truly grow and exhibit the «unconditional» love of Christ without the judgmentalism and conditional love that religion puts upon us.

And so he or she doesn't really escape the excessive judgmentalism people have these days about the alleged vice of obesity.

Wouldn't you rather err on the side of grace and mercy instead of legalism and judgmentalism?

I know so many people who leave the church, not because of what is believed, but because of the pettiness and judgmentalism of those who believe it.

I know that's whimsical and light, but the element of seriousness in it is that if the born - again experience leads to an even more rigid sense of righteousness, and to an even more rigid judgmentalism, then it's not the born - again experience.

Which doesn't necessarily make their task any easier, for they must grapple openly with those — both on the progressive left and in minority communities — who are openly hostile to cultural judgmentalism and imperialism.

That John apparently didn't understand that there was no judgmentalism in the offhand phrase demanded that I point out that it was meant as a joke.