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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

What I get from my study of the Bible is that we're all in Christ, that we're all the same in God's eyes.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.

How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.