Quotes About Justification

O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence.

His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them.

The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt—

Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it.

to take it easy," he said defensively.

I mean present the best case possible using whatever facts or near facts are handy.

Thus, he and his gun had been sent to do the deed, in the interests of national security, which seemed to be a catchall to justify any death, anywhere, any time.

It's the exercise of power, not the exercise of freedom, that requires justification.

That's not how human psychology works. No, we tend to do lots of things without knowing why. We need excuses, though, so we rationalize! If an obvious reason for our behavior isn't readily available, we invent one, preferably one that helps us think better of ourselves.

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

That evil people never believe they are evil, but rather that everyone else is evil.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Leggo per legittima difesa.

amor es lo más parecido a las mentiras. Justifica u opaca a la razón, por derecho o torcido que parezca, no requiere de justificaciones, se reproduce a la menor provocación y exige todo el crédito del mundo. Además de que nadie o casi nadie puede vivir tranquilo en su total ausencia.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

No one ever hates without a cause....

It is important to understand that Paul is not just using Abraham as an illustration of the gospel or of his teaching about justification by grace through faith. No, Abraham is the beginning of the gospel.

Friar Barnadine: Thou hast committed—Barabas: Fornication—but that was in another country;And besides, the wench is dead.

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.

Sometimes only a lie can save you.

What sustains me is to know that I shall always fabricate a god in the image I require in order to sleep peacefully, and that others will quietly pretend that we are all justified, and that there is nothing to be done. All this because we are astute by nature and the bastions of something. And above all, because we try not to understand.

That's the trick about denial, isn't it? Once you start lying to yourself, there's no one else to stop you from believing your own bullshit.