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Such a hateful excuse is verily to carry the Urim with its oracular gems into the very sty of sensuality, and to debase your religion into `a procuress to the lords of hell. I have done; but let me say, Hazlet, that your self-justification is, if possible, more repulsive than your sin."
She supposed that Barto was going to say that he had not given the order for her assassination. "You do not wish me dead, signore?" "Nothing that is not standing in my way, signora contessa," said Barto; and his features blazed with a smile of happy self-justification. "I have killed a sentinel this night: Providence placed him there.
He spoke of her father, and in so doing struck the only nerve in her which conveyed an emotion of tenderness; instantly the feeling begot self-reproach, and of self-reproach was born as quickly the harsh self-justification with which her pride ever answered blame.
In all the hours of mental anguish which had passed since her departure from Saratoga, there had been an accusing spirit at her ear, and, resist as she would, self-condemnation prevailed over attempted self-justification. The cause of this unhappy rupture was so slight, the first provocation so insignificant, that she felt the difficulty of making out her case before her father.
I have often been able to justify to myself conduct which has seemed strange to others; and it has been my misfortune to live so much alone, that perhaps I may rely too much on this practice of self-justification. "It is now five years since my friend and cousin, Mrs. Cheriton, came to live with me.
They were skirting the Palais Royal when suddenly she turned to him in an impulsive attempt at self-justification. "What must you be thinking of me, Mr. Lanyard?" He was startled: "I? Oh, don't consider me, please. It doesn't matter what I think does it?" "But you've been so kind; I feel I owe you at least some explanation "
By it we may become involuntary hypocrites, uttering desires which are not real, and consoling ourselves in the midst of sin, with the recollection that we have prayed over it or mean to ask forgiveness at some later day. Hypocrisy is fatal to religion. A wordy prayer may afford a quiet sense of self-justification, though it makes the sinner a hypocrite.
Men saw him diligently attend mass every day, and restlessly busy himself during the most solemn moments in scribbling, in drawing pictures, in talking to his courtiers, in settling the affairs of State; or heard how he refused confession till forced to it by terror in the last extremity of sickness, and then turned it into a surprising ceremony of apology and self-justification.
At first conscience for she had an active little one remonstrated. "But," she replied, silently, with a very natural tendency to self-justification, "although Beniah told me not to touch things, I did not promise not to do so?" "True, but your silence was equivalent to a promise," said something within her. "No, it wasn't," she replied aloud.
The Law dispels all self-illusions. It puts the fear of God in a man. Without this fear there can be no thirst for God's mercy. God accordingly uses the Law for a hammer to break up the illusion of self- righteousness, that we should despair of our own strength and efforts at self-justification.
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