Quotes About Self-justification

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?" (Job 40:2-8)

Speeches of self-justification were seldom worthwhile for any but the speaker.

Mostly, we swaddle ourselves in the sacrilege of self-justification and kowtow to a God we have silently rechristened ego. All things are acceptable in the all-seeing eyes of self-interest. Within the walls of our flimsy Jericho, we court ruin.

I always tried to play the bad guys as guys who didn't know they were bad guys. There are villains we run into all the time, but they don't think they are doing anything wrong. If they do, they think they are cunning and smart. When people break laws and ethical rules, they justify it in their own terms.

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

It is to be feared that very many have little knowledge of the main enemy that they carry about them in their bosoms. This makes them ready to justify themselves, and to be impatient of reproof or admonition, not knowing that they are in any danger. 2 Chronicles 16:10

Im not stalking I'm just proving a point. Deal with yourself being wrong.

Si queremos vivir como seres libres, nunca justifiquemos lo que hemos hecho de nuestras vidas en base a lo que otros hicieron con nosotros. Si lo hacemos, seremos nosotros quienes mantendremos en nuestro cuerpo la toxicidad de aquel veneno y nuestra vida estará llena de excusas, pero no de resultados.

This is classic denial: no one wants to hold a mental image of themselves as bad or evil, so immoral acts are necessarily dressed up in a cloak of intellectual self-justification.

Stealing is good, honest work, " Said the theif, puffing out his chest. "Well, not honest, strictly speaking, " he admitted after a moment. "Or actually good.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.

Most people who know they've fucked up manage to find a way to justify themselves.

I'm not being defensive, I'm just defending myself.

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

Sanación interior lleva a búsqueda de patrones de pensamiento y comportamiento. Si no hay apoyo llega introspección y depresión. Necesitamos un amigo maduro y volver mirada a Cristo. Hablar en voz alta con Jesús, no basta sólo pensar. Eso ahuyenta la autocompasión, la autojustificación, el echar culpas y cualquier forma de hacer que las cosas dependan de mí.

Verla says that no one thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.

The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

A man makes himself hard and inflexible in order to escape his guiltiness. The strange paradox present on every page of the Gospels and which we can verify any day, is that it is not guilt which is the obstacle to grace, as moralism supposes. On the contrary, it is the repression of guilt, self-justification, genuine self-righteousness and smugness which is the obstacle.

Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause.

Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ëI have done nothing wrong.í