blame

• refrain from condemnation

147:8.4“‘Then shall your light break forth as the morn­ing while your health springs forth speed­ily. Your righ­teous­ness shall go be­fore you while the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then will you call upon the Lord, and he shall an­swer; you will cry out, and he shall say—Here am I. And all this he will do if you re­frain from op­pres­sion, con­dem­na­tion, and van­ity. The Fa­ther rather de­sires that you draw out your heart to the hun­gry, and that you min­is­ter to the af­flicted souls; then shall your light shine in ob­scu­rity, and even your dark­ness shall be as the noon­day. Then shall the Lord guide you con­tin­u­ally, sat­is­fy­ing your soul and re­new­ing your strength. You shall be­come like a wa­tered gar­den, like a spring whose wa­ters fail not. And they who do these things shall re­store the wasted glo­ries; they shall raise up the foun­da­tions of many gen­er­a­tions; they shall be called the re­builders of bro­ken walls, the re­stor­ers of safe paths in which to dwell.’”

• placing failures of one’s own making upon others

176:3.9And how much like all self­ish mor­tals was this un­faith­ful ser­vant with the one tal­ent in that he blamed his sloth­ful­ness di­rectly upon his lord. How prone is man, when he is con­fronted with the fail­ures of his own mak­ing, to put the blame upon oth­ers, of­ten­times upon those who least de­serve it!

• Judas blamed others for his difficulties

193:4.73. He never ac­quired a philo­sophic tech­nique for meet­ing dis­ap­point­ment. In­stead of ac­cept­ing dis­ap­point­ments as a reg­u­lar and com­mon­place fea­ture of hu­man ex­is­tence, he un­fail­ingly re­sorted to the prac­tice of blam­ing some­one in par­tic­u­lar, or his as­so­ciates as a group, for all his per­sonal dif­fi­cul­ties and dis­ap­point­ments.