Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification. — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“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… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
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… — Elliot Aronson Copy Share Image
“She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
“The act of gaining true insights from self - reflection is a futile action for most ... as there are easy way… — Anubhav Mishra Copy Share Image
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Cleverness builds ever more elaborate structures of self-justification… But in the end you know what is and what is not right. All… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil. "Reasonable people," he said, think that "with a little reason,… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Children learn to justify their aggressive actions early: They hit a younger sibling, who starts to cry, and immediately claim, "But he… — Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson Copy Share Image
“Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“If the partner becomes God he can just as easily become the Devil; the reason is not far to seek. For one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN: Self-justification is worse than the original offence.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“At what point in the history of Letheras, he wondered, did rampant greed become a virtue? The level of self-justification required was… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
![“If the partner becomes God he can just as easily become the Devil; the reason is not far to seek. For one thing, one becomes bound to the object in dependency. One needs it for self-justification. . . . [O]ne's self-development is restricted by the object, absorbed by it. It is too narrow a…” quote by Ernest Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bca/ernest-becker-7036_lose-yourself_if-the-partner-becomes-god-he-can-just-a_336762.jpg)
