Quotes About Justification

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist

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

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.