Quotes About Justification

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

We did what people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

The reason I'm uncomfortable with celebrity and don't care about it is that none of that matters. I think that's why people attack me and think I'm arrogant. I've never felt the need to justify myself. If I make good music, that music will do the job for me, even when I'm dead and gone.

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

What I've learned is that everybody really wants to sell their story. No matter who they are, everybody feels that what they're doing is the right thing, and if they could only explain themselves to a reasonable person that understands them, then maybe they'll listen.

The murder of a child has no justification, even if the bombs have missed their mark.

People bring it up to me: 'Well, you're only in your spot because you can talk well.' Okay, first off, you could be right. But second, what - am I supposed to apologize for this? No.

I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.

I don't think I've ever hurt anybody. I think I'll stand up on the day of judgment and go, 'Yeah? So what?'

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

To justify God's ways to man.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.