Quotes About Justification

I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to perish through the present ones.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

We live in days of assassins'—where evil is sought in lives more than good to justify a world with a bad conscience.

hous vivons aux temps des assassins —"we live in days of assassins"—where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience.

You can justify your refusal to come to God because of scandals. So did the soldiers. It was an awful scandal that Christ the Son of God should swing impotent from a peg.

Vananenud raamatutest oma lastele raamatukogu rajamist saab õigustada ainult samamoodi, nagu õigustatakse varemete säilitamist: arheoloogiaga.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

There is no excuse for violence. There is never a justification for anyone to impose themselves on someone else. And it will always be incorrect when it comes to a man and a woman, regardless of what might have happened. You need to be man enough to take the blow. That is always the best way. Do not put your hands on a woman.

The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.