Quotes About Justification

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

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

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

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

I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.

People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason.

Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. And I didn't kill her, kill her.""Oh, I see. As long as you didn't kill her, kill her, then that's okay.

Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.

...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.

Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.