Quotes About Justification

your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all.

This last argument overcame my remorse. It was all I needed, for man is a coward intent on finding an excuse for his cowardice

Por lo tanto, el hecho de que Abraham sea justificado por la fe, sin la circuncisión, muestra cómo puede ser el padre de todos los que son justificados por la fe (con o sin la circuncisión).

Aprendemos que la salvación siempre ha sido solo por la fe en Cristo solamente. Un verdadero hijo de Dios no viene por nacimiento natural ni por circuncisión ni por obras, sino por la fe. Toda la Escritura apunta a una sola persona. Toda la Escritura se centra en Cristo Jesús.

They started with no budget and had to justify every cost—and were told that only those costs that were absolutely essential to making product for the customer would be approved.

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

Time wasted rationalizing the mediocre could be time spent creating the magnificent.

It's not fair," Davis protested. "After Nick wins, you'll just say conditions were different when Hayden came down, and that's what made her slower.Like,it started snowing." "Or it stopped snowing," Gavin said. "Or the wind was harder," Davis said. "Or the wind was softer ," Gavin said. "Girls will whine about anything.

I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

In moments, I clutched at the notion of some larger "me" that could contain and justify my contradictory behavior, but more often I simply felt like the scene of two irreconcilable visions, two different people, one unerringly loyal and faithful, the other treacherous and greedy.

Some people do horrible things because of their beliefs, and some people choose beliefs that let them do horrible things.

Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don't you think? For doing terrible things to other people.

I'm not a shitty person, but I'm about to do a shitty thing. and you will hate me, and some other people will hate me, but I'm going to do it anyway to protect you and also myself.

If a man must make excuses for himself, continually argue with himself that he is a man, then he is better off dead.

Our faith works because we love, and we love because he has first loved us. Our faith is then emboldened by this responsive love; we've been loved, we've been assured of our justification; our Father speaks of our sanctification as if it had already occurred. By faith, then, we can courageously pursue growth into our true identity.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.

I felt myself tense up, having long noticed that this was something men (and boys, obviously) did after any breakup. Dub their exes "crazy." Discredit them, make it seem as if the men were lucky to have gotten out of the relationship. In fact, Julie had once told me it was the most common narrative in the aftermath of a divorce—the justification men used for their own misconduct. A form of misogyny.

Ellen laughs, as we've both made fun of those nauseating Facebook posts that use a religious concept to justify their thinly veiled bragging.

They are all just so many opportunities to justify your ways to man, by showing just how little circumstances amount to.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.