Quotes about Excuse
We are all accountable: Our fallen nature is no excuse. We are responsible: God is not to blame. We stand guilty and deserving judgment. Any other teaching dilutes and refutes the true significance of the cross of Christ.
- William Wilberforce
Only an unwillingness to be open and honest can keep us from the conclusion that both reason and experience tell us that what the Bible says about us is true. We are without excuse if we remain in denial.
- William Wilberforce
I do know that I don't want to see anybody legitimately have the excuse that they are not voting because their votes don't count. That can't happen - whether I'm the one impacted by that vote or not.
- Andrew Gillum
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is always revealed through the Word; but sadly, people don't always accept it. It is a painful process to face our faults and deal with them. Generally speaking, people justify misbehavior. They allow their past and how they were raised to negatively affect the rest of their lives. Our past may explain why we're suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
- Joyce Meyer
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
- Cicero
The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
- John Lennon
Two wretched Moslems asserted "that the firing was done by the people of the English;" I asked one of them why he lied so, and he could utter no excuse: no other falsehood came to his aid as he stood abashed, before me, and so telling him not to tell palpable falsehoods, I left him gaping.
- David Livingstone
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.
- Andy Stanley
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
- CS Lewis