For evaluating myself and other people, I use double standards, like a dishonest merchant: I look at my good points through a lens that increases the size of the image, and for my limitations I use the lens that reduces them. For observing other people, I do the other way around. This double standard policy is also called the "funnel law", because I look at things from the narrow or the wide end of the funnel, as convenient. The result of all this dishonesty is a spiritual blindness that mistakes a splinter for a plank!

How about God? No double standard! To judge each one of us, he uses a single standard: the same we use to judge other people: "The judgements you give are the judgements you will get." If you are benevolent, He will be benevolent with you; if you are intransigent, so He will be; so, you had better change your attitudes!