Quotes About Self Justification

#1. There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Storm Jameson

#2. Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification.

Richard J. Foster

#3. A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Anita Brookner

#4. Self-justification, that was the danger
the exhilerating exercise of explaining why my ways are God's ways after all.

Hugh Nibley

#5. We give ourselves only to relationships and pursuits that build us up and bolster our efforts at self-justification and self-creation. But this also leads us to disdain and look down on those who do not have the same accomplishments or identity-markers

Timothy Keller

#6. When we have unconflicted self-esteem, joy is our motor, not fear. It is happiness that we wish to experience, not suffering that we wish to avoid. Our purpose is self-expression, not self-avoidance or self-justification. Our motive is not to "prove" our worth but to live our possibilities.

Nathaniel Branden

#7. When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

Paul David Tripp

#8. Our sin warps our understanding because we all tend toward self-justification. Studying

Tim Chester

#9. In inventing [General Juan Manuel de] Rosas' self-justification, I have taken the liberty of drawing almost exclusively on the words of Tony Blair, and the various self-justifications he produced to defend his foreign policy adventures with George Bush in the Middle East and the Central Asia.

Harry Thompson

#10. Eradicate self-justification.
Then alone can you annihilate your ego.

Sivananda

#11. The false gospel of self-justification is a great enemy of the Christian faith because so many have been misled to believe that it is Christianity.

Gloria Furman

#12. The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

Tullian Tchividjian

#13. Through my memory of the Passion, God can "purify" my memory of wrongs suffered because my identity stems neither from the wrongdoing done to me, which would require the perpetual accusation of my wrongdoer, nor from my own (false) innocence, which would lead me to (illegitimate) self-justification.

Miroslav Volf

#14. This is classic denial: no one wants to hold a mental image of themselves as bad or evil, so immoral acts are necessarily dressed up in a cloak of intellectual self-justification.

Mark Lynas

#15. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

Carol Tavris

#16. Your capacity for self-justification and rationalization." "If it were an Olympic sport, I'd medal.

Tiffany Reisz

#17. The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#18. To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

Margaret Deland

#19. Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. In a world of fragile self-justification, the truth made no one happy.

Greg Bear

#21. Self-justification is unjust.

Toba Beta

#22. Any reason could be made for self-justification.

Toba Beta

#23. The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

Michael Foley

#24. Self-justification is the enemy of repentance.

Spencer W. Kimball

#25. Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

Thomas Szasz

#26. Fanatics clouded by self-justification.

Toba Beta

#27. Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.

Elliot Aronson

#28. Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

Eugene H. Peterson

#29. The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

Paul Tournier

#30. The act of gaining true insights from self - reflection is a futile action for most ... as there are easy way out things like self justification, rationalization, delusions and denial which keeps us away from our true self, the inner core and thus we live contented

Anubhav Mishra

#31. The nights in Billancourt were soft and sweet, enlivened now and again by those childish airplane or zeppelin alarms which provided the civilian population with thrills and self-justification.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#32. I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential.

Lorii Myers

#33. Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

Wellington Mara

#34. Each additional day together is a gift. The end of the day means the end of hostilities, the recognition that the underlying shared values and commitment to the relationship trump the need for one last dig or self-righteous justification.

Daniel Kahneman

#35. [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Ayn Rand

#36. Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedom to do whatever Shane told them, as long as it did not conflict too much with their self-preservation.

Thomm Quackenbush

#37. The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

Paul Theroux

#38. Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid - necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

George Eliot

#39. You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP

John Paul Warren

#40. Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

Pema Chodron

#41. Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her - that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.

George Eliot

#42. People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others' needs more highly than their own.

Auliq Ice

#43. The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#44. I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Criss Jami

#45. At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

Dan Gelber

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

Arthur Erickson

#47. What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

David Mitchell

#48. How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line,' and we showed up with an eraser?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#49. All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.

Lance Conrad

#50. Excuse tries to justify.

Toba Beta

#51. Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

Max Frisch

#52. Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings.

Bryant McGill

#53. A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Franklin D. Roosevelt