Quotes About Justification

self: "This is how I felt." Before long, this leads to incredibly convoluted psychoanalysis in a futile effort to justify the most banal, superficial

How could the Vatican justify taking such a great interest in the Jews, asked Dell'Acqua, when it had not complained about the violence Germany had directed against "Aryan people who have professed the Catholic religion from birth"?

Keep asking the question 'Who benefits?' - Who benefits from me believing what they are telling me? Remember that words don't change the world only outcomes do. The outcome will invariably tell you who was behind events that justified or led to the outcome and you can see the process at an earlier stage by asking when an event happens - what will be the outcome if I believe what they are telling me?

A common view of knowledge, going back to Plato, is that knowledge is justified, true belief. To know something, you have to think it's true (that's belief), you have to be right about it (that's truth), and you have to have good reasons for believing it (that's justification).

I tried to think of a good reason as to why I had a sex book down my pants, but my brain refused to work.

Why is the integrity of the literary canon everywhere articulated in terms of its imagined integration to a nation-state as well as a racialized civilization? What would it mean to seek justification for literary studies on the basis of aesthetic value rather than the contestable presumption that literary canons function as the preeminent repositories of national cultures and/or racialized civilizations?

A man is not saved because he believes in Christ, he believes in Christ because he is saved.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

In America, you're allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God's big book of bad ideas.

If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

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

God declared me righteous!

In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.

God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

You don't have to make excuses for God.