Quotes about Rationalization

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Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of co — Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it act — Craig D. Lounsbrough
When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and — John R. Perry, The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing
Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusiv — David L. Calof, The Couple Who Became Each Other: Stories of Healing and Transformation from a Leading Hypnotherapist
When we look at Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael, we see that God's grace can survive our three-ring-circuses of compro — Carl Prude Jr., Anchored in Light: Understanding and Overcoming the Five Deadliest Threats to Your Faith
There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that th — Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was. — Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
With no one to confide in, she'd held the argument inside her own head and naturally found a way to dissolve facts into — Vincent H. O'Neil, Interlands
Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our acti — Craig D. Lounsbrough
These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons. — Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
Yet our common moral knowledge is as real as arithmetic, and probably just as plain. Paradoxically, maddeningly, we appe — J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad beh — Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actual — Craig D. Lounsbrough
Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience. — Doug Cooper, Outside In
If now we attend to ourselves on occasion of any transgression of duty, we shall find that we in fact do not will that o — Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE. — K.P. Yohannan, Living in the Light of Eternity
Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your — Paul David Tripp
How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser? — Craig D. Lounsbrough