Quotes About Justification

As for the myths, take anyone's life and deny that most of it is deliberate self-delusion - an aggrandizement - a mixture of lies and truth, of what was wanted and what was had, producing the necessary justification for having been granted life in the first place. I was struck like a match, Lily wrote. I had no option but to burn. You can put a period after that. Lily did. It was the story of her life.

That person is not righteous who does many works but who, without works, believes much in Christ.

Self-righteousness is your own personal defense attorney.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves

Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.

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.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

My dear fellow, I am prepared to prove anything.

The result justifies the deed (Exitus acta probat)

Ko hoce nadje nacin, ko nece nadje opravdanje.

I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing? Motive - Don't know. What do you mean Don't know ? I tell you I hadn't got one. Put None. You must have one. If you kill people without one, you're mad.

What you're saying is, OK the war isn't being fought for the reasons we're told but it is being fought for a reason. It's not benefiting the people it's supposed to be benefiting but it is benefiting somebody. And I don't believe that, you see. I think things are actually much worse than you think because there isn't any kind of rational justification left. It's become a self-perpetuating system. Nobody benefits. Nobody's in control. Nobody knows how to stop.

Slavery was so brutal and devastating, Europeans looked for ways to justify themselves. For a while they used the argument that the Africans were pagans, savages, heathens in need of salvation.

Reincarnation offers a better justification of evil than anything monotheism can offer, but it does so by blaming the victim and sanctifying the status quo.

How was Frank ever going to achieve the big justification, which would take away all his guilt? He might never find a total justification, but he had to find an attitude. Every mistake in life, Tom thought, had to be met by an attitude, either the right attitude or the wrong one, a constructive attitude or self-destructive attitude.

Criticism is futile because it puts people on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

A crítica é fútil porque coloca as pessoas na defensiva e faz com que lutem para se justificar. A crítica é perigosa, porque fere o orgulho precioso das pessoas, atinge a sua auto-estima e desperta ressentimentos.

Gostamos de continuar a acreditar naquilo que nos habituamos a aceitar como verdade, e os ressentimentos despertos quando lançam dúvidas sobre qualquer um dos nossos pressupostos levam-nos a procurar todo o tipo de desculpas para nos agarrarmos a eles.

La crítica es inútil porque pone a la otra persona a la defensiva, y por lo común hace que trate de justificarse.

We must stop using the fact that we cannot earn grace ( whether for justification or for sanctification) as an excuse for not energetically seeking to receive grace.

They presume on their justification in being whatever they are—unlike a thought, which by nature is open to challenge and invites the question "Why?

el enfado es la más seductora de las emociones negativas porque el monólogo interno que lo alienta proporciona argumentos convincentes para justificar el hecho de poder descargarlo sobre alguien.

A big part of the problem here is that the human brain often makes up its mind based on emotional considerations, and then seeks to justify them. And the brain is a very powerful self-justifying machine.