Rationalization Quotes

Rationalization Quote of the day

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

When we look at Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael, we see that God's grace can survive our three-ring-circuses of compromise, rationalization and weak faith.

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line, ’ and we showed up with an eraser?

Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!

We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness.

Habitual excuses for inactivity indicates little or no interest in what one ought to have done.

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

Mediocrity is ‘purpose’ left to rot in minds ensnared in the deluded rationalization that vision is nothing more than a collection of fanciful dreams constructed by an imaginary God.

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.