„Only God can judge me now“
Variant: Only God can judge me.
Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Tupac Shakur167
rapper and actor 1971 - 1996Related quotes
„No one should question the faith of others, for no human can judge the ways of God.“
— Haile Selassie Emperor of Ethiopia 1892 - 1975
Not reliably sourced, as this has thus far been found only in a Rastafarian publication http://www.himchurch.org/index.html on the internet which conflates several different statements by Haile Selassie made between 1948 and 1966 with some made by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan which were merely quoted by Selassie in 1965.
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„Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.“
— Joyce Kilmer, Trees and Other Poems
"Trees" - This poem was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse Vol. 2 (August 1913). The first two lines were first written down on the 2nd of February 1913.
Trees and Other Poems (1914)
Context: I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
„So the moral of this story is: Who are you to judge?
There's only one true judge, and that's God
So chill, and let my Father do His job.“
— Cheryl James American rapper and actress 1966
"None of Your Business"
„The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Now I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me.“
— A.E. Housman English classical scholar and poet 1859 - 1936
No. 12, l. 1-4.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
„And only God who makes the tree
Also makes the fools like me. But only fools like me, you see,
Can make a God, who makes a tree.“
— Yip Harburg American song lyricist 1896 - 1981
"Atheist".
Rhymes for the Irreverent (1965)
„Each people has its gods, or the spirits in which they believe. It may be their god is the same as ours, only clothed in different stories, different ideas, but a god can only be strong, Hannes, if he is worshiped, and the gods of those ancient people are lonesome gods now.“
— Louis L'Amour Novelist, short story writer 1908 - 1988
Source: The Lonesome Gods (1983), Ch. 8
Context: Long ago, before the Indians who live here now, there were other people. Perhaps they went away, or maybe they died or were driven out by these Indians’ ancestors, but they are gone. Yet sometimes I am not sure they are gone. I think sometimes their spirits are still around, in the land they loved.
Each people has its gods, or the spirits in which they believe. It may be their god is the same as ours, only clothed in different stories, different ideas, but a god can only be strong, Hannes, if he is worshiped, and the gods of those ancient people are lonesome gods now.
They are out there in the desert and mountains, and perhaps their strength has waned because nobody lights fires on their altars anymore. But they are there, Hannes, and sometimes I think they know me and remember me.
„Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now….“
— Nora Roberts American romance writer 1950
Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex
„In the end, it is not about the piece of cloth. It is about the relationship with God, and I know I don’t want anybody judging me so I don’t think it is right for us to judge each other.“
— Dawud Wharnsby Canadian musician 1972
On various concerns about writing his song "The Veil", and reactions to it.
Beating the drums of hope and faith (2004)
Context: We spend so much time defending the Qur’an from attacks that it’s sexist, we rant and rave about how Islam gave rights to women over 1400 years ago, but our sisters are still not in position of leadership within our community. Our sisters are still praying next to the shoe-racks while the men have plush carpets beneath their lazy foreheads and our public women’s shelters are full of Muslim women fleeing from abusive husbands and dead-beat dads. The sad reality is that our community does display sexist attitudes to women. Writing a song about Hijab seemed pretty shallow to me in light of the other issues surrounding women that we Muslims are too self-righteous to face. … I began to see that some Muslim women look down on others for not covering, or that many Muslim men judge sisters who wear hijab differently from those who don’t. A sister shows up at the mosque one day without hijab and she is treated rudely; she shows up the next day with hijab and she is treated like a queen. Such a scenario is a blatant treatment of the woman as an object, no different than the judgements we see made in secular society of women’s appearances. In the end, it is not about the piece of cloth. It is about the relationship with God, and I know I don’t want anybody judging me so I don’t think it is right for us to judge each other.
„If God exists, God can be experienced; but only by you.“
— Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
„A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.“
— John Bartholomew Gough Anglo-American temperance orator 1817 - 1886
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 46.
„God is life supreme. Now God, the power that holds the universe in the palm of his hand, is the only being that can say, "I Am," and put a period there and never look back. And don't be foolish enough to forget Him.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)
„The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.“
— Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
„But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.“
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
VI, 41
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
„God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.“
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935
„God pity me now and all desolate sinners
Demented with beauty!“
— Patrick MacDonogh Irish poet 1902 - 1961
She Walked Unaware (1975)
„Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.“
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
6 : God is Shy of Strangers, p. 7.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Context: If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him.
Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.
„That is the difference between gods and men. Gods can change themselves; humans can only be changed.“
— Cees Nooteboom, book The Following Story
The Following Story (1991)
„There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.“
— Helen Prejean advocate for the abolition of the death penalty 1939
Source: Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate