Mother Angelica Quotes

One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.

The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

In truth, there is no such thing as a "sinner" for no-one can be sinned against-least of all me.

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

My conscience is clear.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

I am guilty of one thing - that I should have cleared out and not had anything to do with these criminals in the first place. Later it was too late. I was in up to my neck. But as for the atrocities, I had not a thing to do with them…