Excusing Quotes

#1. It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.

Armond White

#3. HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.

J.C. Ryle

#4. Excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.

Oscar Wilde

#5. When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

John Ortberg

#6. I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

Hill Harper

#7. Abruptly excusing himself,

Karen Miller

#8. The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.

Moliere

#9. His route to them met with one obstacle after another as he negotiated his way across the room, excusing himself at every turn and twist.

Steven Erikson

#10. And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he [my father] used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and when he had them not, he did not want them.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. Maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway
excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Kathleen Winsor

#12. If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

James Altucher

#13. We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

LZ Granderson

#14. French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

Simon Baker

#15. before excusing himself. "Sorry." She turned

Lexi Ostrow

#16. We have the ability to rise up and take control of our lives, if only we stop to pay attention to the warning signs that we so often find ourselves excusing and ignoring.

Tori Kinsey

#17. Self-righteousness means you don't see yourself or the other person with accuracy. It means you see his or her speck as a log and your log as a speck. So you are condemning of him or her and excusing of yourself. You treat the other person with judgment while you respond to yourself with patience.

Paul David Tripp

#18. Three aspects of the self betrayer's conduct always go together: accusing others, excusing oneself, and displaying oneself as a victim.

C. Terry Warner

#19. In an era where the White House is abusing power, is excusing and authorizing torture and is spying on American citizens, I find Judge [Samuel] Alito's support for an all-powerful executive branch to be genuinely troubling.

Samuel Alito

#20. The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Moliere

#21. We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

Elizabeth Berkley

#22. And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

William Shakespeare

#23. Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.

Michael Chertoff

#24. Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself..

Robin Sharma

#25. He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.

Rachel Bach

#27. Humour is ... the all-consoling and ... the all-excusing, grace of life.

C.S. Lewis

#28. I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

Jennifer Egan

#29. If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#31. Blaming others is excusing yourself.

Robin S. Sharma

#32. When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.

Dean Ornish

#33. Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or dogmatic study in order to personally encounter the divine.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#34. Eliminate the word "impossible" from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing it. Substitute for it that bright and shining word ... POSSIBLE."

Norman Vincent Peale

#35. Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

C.S. Lewis

#36. In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt strongly about them.

Jesse Harris

#37. The conscience within man is always either excusing or accusing.

Tedd Tripp

#38. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

Stephen Richards

#39. Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else!

Susan RoAne

#40. Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.

Lorii Myers

#41. If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.

Albert Camus

#42. What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'

Pope Pius XI