“Don't criticize what you can't understand.” ― Bob Dylan

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.” – Dale Carnegie

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.” ― Shannon L. Alder

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” ― Mark Twain

So, you have an opinion? Most people do?

Most people have noses and ears also as well as parts that few see and fewer still want to see.

I have a couple of opinions myself … some are quite opinionated. From time to time I am deluded into thinking I have a divine appointment and mandate to think as I do. Then something thoroughly contradicts me and I am released from the compulsion tell the world.

Our generation has venerated slander and consecrated verbal abuse.

We feel fully justified to speak ill of our neighbors as long as we perceive them to be ideological enemies.

We have the audacity to think that when our words are graceless, they can be godly, that we are somehow like Him or he like us when we speak against another with venom, half-truth, misquotes, presumptive assumptions, anger, or malice.

Such speech has nothing to do with God.

God is not like us that way.

Beyond graceless, ungracious is disgraceful.

Have all the opinions you need to have or want to have, but season them with grace before you take the rest of the world to task for not thinking as you do.

“You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother's son.
These things you have done, and I have been silent;
you thought that I was one like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you." – Psalm 50:19-21 (ESV)