Quotes About Justification

A belief that doesn't require evidence is still only a belief.

Somehow, when his duties had consisted of killing hostile Sioux and Cheyenne, Zane had been able to justify the situation. Those groups were warring against the wagon trains and refusing to follow government instructions. Many tribes saw the whites as an impossible threat, refusing to even try to get along. But the Blackfoot had been friendly. For the most part. Mountain

Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Thus the righteousness of Christ becomes our righteousness through faith in Christ, and everything that is his, even he himself, becomes ours ... and he who believes in Christ clings to Christ and is one with Christ and has the same righteousness with him.

Because they see most people as weak, inferior, and easy to deceive, psychopathic con artists will often tell you that their victims deserved what they got.

Another characteristic of psychopaths is an ability to avoid taking responsibility for things that go wrong; instead, they blame others, circumstances, fate, and so forth.

Therefore, the phrase, "For thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness," means that "it is fitting that I take-on all the sins of mankind, in the most fitting way or method, you performing baptism on Me and I received the baptism from you all.

Only fools and criminals didn't know why they did things.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

Seeing when you justify yourself and when you blame others is not a reason to criticize yourself, but actually an opportunity to recognize what all people do and how it imprisons us in a very limited perspective of this world.

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

The artist is justified by his art.