Quotes about Excuse

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them.

It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.

Rules are often an excuse to ignore compassion.

And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said what it was. Possibly, to many of them, all it meant was the right to have money. Or get more of it.

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.

Wherefore, when we wander and go astray, we are justly shut out from every species of excuse, because all things point to the right path. But while man must bear the guilt of corrupting the seed of divine knowledge so wondrously deposited in his mind, and preventing it from bearing good and genuine fruit, it is still most true that we are not sufficiently instructed by that bare and simple, but magnificent testimony which the creatures bear to the glory of their Creator. For

I grant more: thieves and murderers and other evildoers are the instruments of divine providence, and the Lord himself uses these to carry out the judgments that he has determined with himself. Yet I deny that they can derive from this any excuse for their evil deeds. Why?

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.