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Quotes About Justification

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
~ James Frey
Call it Irony or destiny of life, but the fact is I failed to make a living from what 'I loved doing the most' nor did I justify for what I was paid for!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
For me, I can not be right in anything unless there is no counter thoughts that contradict my wrong, in this case my thoughts will be right.
~ Hisham Fawzi
So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
~ John Milton
All of us, married and single, are supposed to live hour by hour by the forgiving, justifying, all-supplying grace of God and then bend it out to all the others in our lives. Jesus says that all of life, not just marriage, is a showcase of God's glory. "Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to
~ John Piper
Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.
~ John Piper
when Paul says in Romans 4:3, 5, 9, and 22 that 'faith is counted as righteousness,' he does not mean that our faith is our righteousness. He means that our faith unites us to Christ so that God's righteousness in Christ is reckoned to us.
~ John Piper
This is the great ground of joy in the word of the cross: Justification is by grace alone (not mixed with our merit), through faith alone (not mixed with our works), on the basis of Christ alone (not mingling his righteousness with ours), to the glory of God alone (not ours).
~ John Piper
Justifying faith is not merely alongside good works, but is also the agency employed by the grace of God to give rise to good works. Thus good works are the evidence of authentic faith.
~ John Piper
The faith that justifies gives rise to lives of obedience—not perfection, but growing holiness.
~ John Piper
The limitation of liberty is justified only when it is necessary for liberty itself, to prevent an invasion of freedom that would be still worse.
~ John Rawls
The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd.
~ John Stuart Mill
The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.
~ John Stuart Mill
When children are stripped of a primary experience base as confinement schooling must do to justify its existence, the natural sequence of learning is destroyed, a sequence which puts experience first.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Harvard Business Review and a subsequent popular book, The No Asshole Rule. In looking for a scientific justification for the no-asshole rule, he discovered the literature on negativity bias and then focused on it in his own
~ John Tierney
Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.
~ John Twelve Hawks
tales in search of an excuse for their telling.
~ John Van Maanen
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
~ John von Neumann
Since I am neither a neurologist nor a psychiatrist, but a mathematician, the work that follows requires some explanation and justification.
~ John von Neumann
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that's what you're asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
~ John Wayne
No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.
~ John Wesley
May we all thus experience what it is to be not almost only, but altogether Christians! Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus, knowing we have peace with God through Jesus Christ, rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, and having the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the l holy Ghost given unto us!
~ John Wesley
But this doctrine has been much abused." So has that of justification by faith. But that is no reason for giving up either this or any other scriptural doctrine. "When you wash your child," as one speaks, "throw away the water; but do not throw away the child.
~ John Wesley
The way adults could talk themselves into and out of feeling okay about something always amazed her.
~ Elizabeth Stuckey-French