Praise is the vice of the commonplace reviewer, just as censoriousness is the vice of the more clever sort.
Censoriousness is a sure sign that he who is addicted to it is ignorant of the immensity of his own shortcomings.
It is of the essence of censoriousness that its activity is displayed with a sinister motive.
But over and above all this, censoriousness is an invasion of the Divine prerogatives.
Those who think that they can acquit themselves of the charge of censoriousness have yet another form of presumptuous confidence to consider.
St. James concludes this brief section against the sin of censoriousness by a telling argumentum ad hominem.
Censoriousness signifieth the absence or decay of love: which inclineth men to think evil, and judge the worst, and aggravate infirmities, and overlook or extenuate any good that is in others.
Censoriousness is injustice, in that the censurers would not be so censured themselves.
Censoriousness is a vermin which crawleth in the carcass of christian love, when the life of it is gone.
You will find that censoriousness is a common vice, and though few are competent judges of your actions, as not being acquainted with all the case, yet every one almost will be venturing to cast in his censure.
Censoriousness (not constrained by just evidence) is contrary to love, as well as hatred is.
