Quotes About Self-justification

Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take—what you do or say or how you choose to appear—is automatically right the moment you act.

30:20 — This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, "I have done no wickedness." It's become a mantra in our society: "But I'm really a good person!" Unbelievers and believers alike often make this claim after they do what God's Word calls sin. But sin requires repentance, not self-justification or denial.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

Our sin warps our understanding because we all tend toward self-justification. Studying

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.

We justify our mistakes, by saying I'm just a human. But we can be more, be a better version of ourselves, if only we have the conviction to try.

She thought she could justify anything, even murder, just because it was what she wanted.

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

Self-Righteousness

In order for us to live comfortably with ourselves while living on unjust terms with others, we have to tell ourselves a story that makes us innocent.

When people treat others badly, they have to rationalize it so they can go on living with themselves. We give ourselves excuses.

Can you justify your existence then?

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

Anxiety is not provoked: it tries to find a justification for itself, and in order to do so seizes upon anything, the vilest pretexts, to which it clings once it has invented them.

Cheating,' Nollie agreed, 'is restorative. It maintains your dignity. Breaking a rule a day keeps the doctor away far better than a fucking apple.

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Self-justification, that was the danger-- the exhilerating exercise of explaining why my ways are God's ways after all.

SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN: Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

Dicho del Sheikh Ziaudin: La autojustificación es peor que la ofensa original.

Whenever you place the cause of one of your actions outside yourself, it's an excuse and not a reason.