Quotes About Justification

Why should I apologize for the monster I have become? No one ever apologized for making me this way.

Forgiving someone that hurt or betrayed you does not justify the wrong they did, you can forgive that person without excusing the act, you have two choices, you can either hold onto anger and resentment or you embrace forgiveness and move forward.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

The client's question, "Are we getting the best deal?" (price negotiation) is very different from "Can we afford this?" (value justification); it is important to understand the difference.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

Saps que ets un covard, però la covardia t'és còmoda, i has arribat a l'edat de la comoditat, quan trair és tan fàcil, quan l'egoisme comença a burxar i vols les coses fàcils i busques raons que ho justifiquin. Per qüestions de matís defuges la responsabilitat, la part de responsabilitat que et toca...

Giving reasons during conflict to justify or defend a viewpoint is just as manipulative as giving reasons to attack that viewpoint. Neither of these routes is an honest assertive I want that can lead to a workable compromise of interests to quickly resolve the conflict.

Escribir es defender la soledad en que se está; es una acción que sólo brota desde un aislamiento efectivo, pero desde un aislamiento comunicable, en que, precisamente, por la lejanía de toda cosa concreta se hace posible un descubrimiento de relaciones entre ellas. Pero es una soledad que necesita ser defendida, que es lo mismo que necesitar de justificación. El escritor defiende su soledad, mostrando lo que en ella y únicamente en ella, encuentra.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Questions. Teresa's communities, like any group, were composed of both introverts who gravitated toward solitude and extroverts who had a proclivity to make beelines to the front parlor. She also knew that we all tend to justify our natural bent. However, to do God's will, sometimes demands that we go against the grain of our personalities. In what ways does God frequently ask you to do things that go against your temperament?

It's amazing how much you can rationalize when you're on drugs. I could actually say to myself, "Look, I'm only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday.

Das ist die Schwäche der Vernunft: wir bedienen uns ihrer meist nur zur Rechtfertigung unseres Glaubens.

She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.

For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.

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

God will justify us from our sins, but he will not justify the least sin in us: He is a God of purer eyes than to behold iniquity.

Wherefore as condemnation is not the infusing of a habit of wickedness into him that is condemned, nor the making of him to be inherently wicked, who was before righteous, but the passing a sentence upon a man with respect to his wickedness; no more is justification the change of a person from inherent unrighteousness to righteousness, by the infusion of a principle of grace, but a sentential declaration of him to be righteous.

Captain, the problem is not that I'm paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia.

I'm not a good man, Mark," Holloway said. "But I was the right man. And for this, that was enough.

It's funny to me that when people fuck up, they think 'it was just business' is in any way a defense.

It is easy to find a logical and virtuous reason for not doing what you don't want to do.

Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.