Quotes About Justification

I write in defense of the beliefs I fear are least defensible.

There were so many lies, all of them precious, all of them necessary.

It is my fervent hope <...> that you would make vidyá, Knowledge, a justification of your blessed existence as man in his civilized condition.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

Second, emotivism is actually a theory of the use of moral language, not of its meaning.13 The emotivist has jumped from a theory of use to a theory of meaning without any justification for that leap.

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone . . . not even to ourselves.

It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless.

No other religion has a God who serves His people rather than demanding service of them. This is why for Martin Luther justification was the chief article of the faith. Christ turned over our human expectations so that His glorious grace might be our faith and confession. God destroys our acquisitive holiness by giving us a perfect ransom that we cannot acquire. This ransom frees us from constantly seeking to put ourselves on top. We are free to be last, because Christ exalts us.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they've been used a couple of times.

Justified sinners are destined to be your glorified children (Rom. 8:30).

Most generous and loving Father, you are most definitely for us. You didn't spare your own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will you not also, along with Jesus, graciously give us all things? You've justified us, and there is now no condemnation. Jesus, you died for us and you now perpetually live to pray for us and advocate for us. Nothing will ever separate us from your love (Rom. 8:31–35)!

Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.

Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.

No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying.

So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.