Quotes About Excuse

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.

You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

Here it was, the first of many lies he'd have to come up with. "Bella threw a knife at my head." He'd do better with the next lie.