Quotes About Justification

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of "just this once.

Believing in God because doing so satisfies one's needs is different from believing that there is a God solely because of evidence.

There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.

Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.

A manís liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited

The great renewal of the theological understanding of the Lutheran doctrine of justification in German and Scandinavian Lutheranism since 1917 has certainly influenced preaching. But it was not enough to keep us from offering sacrifices in the house of God to the heathen gods of nation and race.

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Stories can justify anything. It doesn't matter if the boy with the heart of stone is a hero or a villain; it doesn't matter if he got what he deserved or if he didn't. No one can reward him or punish him, save the storyteller.

We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.

Stories can justify anything. It doesn't matter if the boy with the heart of stone is a hero or a villain; it doesn't matter if he got what he deserved or if he didn't. No one can reward him or punish him, save the storyteller. And she's the one who shaded the tale so we'd feel whatever way we feel about him in the first place.

The more they get away with, the more they believe they're entitled to have.

Or maybe temporary insanity is just an excuse for inexcusable behavior.

Marriage to Perry meant she was always ready to justify her actions, constantly monitoring what she'd just said or done, while simultaneously feeling defensive about the defensiveness, her thoughts and feelings twisting into impenetrable knots, so that sometimes, like right now, sitting in a room with normal people, all the things she couldn't say rose in her throat and for a moment she couldn't breathe.

always ready to justify her actions, constantly monitoring what she'd just said or done, while simultaneously feeling defensive about the defensiveness, her thoughts and feelings twisting into impenetrable knots, so that sometimes, like right now, sitting in a room with normal people, all the things she couldn't say rose in her throat and for a moment she couldn't breathe.

I hate male cowardice and the way they always have each other's backs. They have no control. They justify everything their dicks make them do. And they get away with it. Nearly every time.

A] person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if: (1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they're good people. So if they're in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.

Thus we have neither behind us, nor before us in a luminous realm of values, any means of justification or excuse. We are left alone, without excuse.

Never kill an animal but for three reasons: for food or hide, for defense, for mercy.

said without looking up. 'That's no reason not to say goodbye

On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. Teenage girls with burst ovarian cysts nodded out on morphine. It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts.

To feel so much was its own justification.