Quotes about Rationalization
We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.
- Andy Stanley
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
- Albert Bandura
Rationalization is Resistance's right-hand man. Its job is to keep us from feeling the shame we would feel if we truly faced what cowards we are for not doing our work.
- Steven Pressfield
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
- Billy Sunday
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
- Mother Angelica
Rationalization begins with a look in the mirror.
- Brennan Manning
The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.
- Joseph Wirthlin
My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization.
- John Piper
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rationalization and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our individual and collective sins. But the day has passed for bland euphemisms. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.
- Thomas Cranmer
I am sure the grapes are sour.
- Aesop