Justification Quote by Idries Shah Download Open image ““SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN: Self-justification is worse than the original offence.”” — Idries Shah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Justification Justification Worse Saying Sheikh Self justification Sheikh Ziaudin Sufis Sufism Wisdom
“When the moral and ethical failure of others becomes your defense, that will be your conviction.” — Wyatt Pringle Jr Copy Share Image
“Once again, claims of moral superiority are used to justify extreme actions. Once again, the fact that some people are hurt is shrugged off… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Anything undertaken with honest intentions can be justly defended.” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“you cloak your offence by ignorance, saying that you did not know my determination in this matter. it is a double offence to do… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
“There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.” — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
“I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I have to… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
“Expressed in theological terms, “In justification our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one thing needful.… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“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… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with such a… — C. F. W. Walther Copy Share Image
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
