Quotes About Justification

the faith which justifies has to do directly with the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is in the sequel that God is vindicated.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

When I assert that Islam is not a religion of peace I do not mean that Islamic belief makes Muslims naturally violent. This is manifestly not the case: there are many millions of peaceful Muslims in the world. What I do say is that the call to violence and the justification for it are explicitly stated in the sacred texts of Islam.

It was a fake, mash-up concept of layered misrepresentations: one, that women were traveling to Syria as comfort women to fighters; two, that they justified this behavior theologically.

The one who causes anger is excused, one who gets is accused.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.

A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.

The goal is not to justify your decision to buy the investment at whatever price you originally paid for it.

But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God. —Romans 4:5

Better to be good without reason than to be evil for a hundred good reasons.

Churchill was obsessively devoted to his father, and ever after passionately concerned to justify himself to the shade of the man whose death had ended 'all my dreams of comradeship with him, of entering Parliament at his side, and in his support. There remained for me only to pursue his aims and vindicate his memory.' There is the crucial word: vindicate.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

Ten times a day I am compelled to reflect on my past life ... and I can never justify to myself the spending of four years on dramatic criticism. I have sworn an oath to endure no more of it. Never again will I cross the threshold of a theatre. The subject is exhausted; and so am I. I am off duty forever, and am going to sleep.