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Criticism: Quotations from Burning Words

Grant me patience, just Heaven! Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.— LAURENCE STERNE

Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.— J. C. SHAIRP

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?— J. G. HOLLAND

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.— H. CLAY TRUMBULL

How many people would like to get up in a social prayermeeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it. With pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critic on the last.