Quotes About Justification

The attempt to beautify doubt is men's sinful way to justify their shortcoming, to delay correction, and even to refuse repentance. We

Ésa es la trampa esencial, aplicar la muerte a los otros por una prórroga perpetua y un aplazamiento. Y eso está justificado por la necesidad de la existencia. Supone perpetuamente este engaño. "Sé que moriré, pero no les creo", dice Jacques Madaule.

Those who live by the labor of others are taught by religion to practice charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.

continuou a gritar, sem compreender que a vida, por si só, entrega-se a nós sem nenhum tipo de condição, e não há necessidade de justificá-la por meios especialmente mirabolantes.

A minha vida está justificada, justificada, justificada!, continuou a gritar, sem compreender que a vida, por si só, entrega-se a nós sem nenhum tipo de condição, e não há necessidade de justificá-la por meios especialmente mirabolantes.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.

The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion," cautioned T. S. Eliot.

To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion

Modern books on pain make a sharp contrast. Their authors assume that the amount of evil and suffering in the world cannot be matched with the traditional view of a good and loving God. God is thus bumped from a "friend of the court" position to the box reserved for the defendant. "How can you possibly justify yourself, God?" these angry moderns seem to say.

He likes to think well of himself," I explained, watching the turn of Anne's head and hearing her ripple of low laughter. "He could not bring himself to turn off a woman just because she's become old. He has to find a way to see that it is God's will that he leaves her. He has to find a greater authority than his own desires.

Speeches of self-justification were seldom worthwhile for any but the speaker.

The genius of most men lay in finding reasons after their actions. The heart was ever self-serving, especially when the beliefs served involved sacrifice.

take her he said Oliver is not going to be pleased, boy. Better go. I had to, Michael said. I had to stake him. He was going to kill her. In point of fact, he wasn't; he was going to hurt her so badly that Amelie would feel it, that's al. But that's not what I meant. You crashed a car into the limousine. Oliver loves his limousine. Michael opened his mouth, then closed it without thinking of anything to say to that.

End justifies the means

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

the morally bipolar are too preoccupied with justifying their contradictory behaviors to learn to laugh at themselves, and I've noticed they laugh at other people more than with them.

To justify murdering tens of millions, Stalin is reputed to have said, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

On a mutual dare, they killed for the first time when they were fifteen. They enjoyed it. And satanism justified it. Gosset called it "just another way of believing.

If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense.

Do you think that the size of the book is justified by the complexity of the story? Grey asked, leaning forward to light a charoot from the candle on the sideboard. It must after all be a great expense to the publisher, as well as requiring a substantial effort from the reader, a book of that length?