Quotes About Justification

This is not an excuse, just an explanation.

El mundo no queda nunca estático; cada año que pasa es un mundo diferente. Sin embargo, ahora que todo el mundo dice que vivimos en un mundo cambiante, creo que es una excusa para justificar los excesos.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

There's nothing I hate more than someone who speaks in the draft room with absolute conviction, but they have nothing to back it up.

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

Julia Bliss Flaherty, as Ivy now realized, was of the same stripe. Pinned down and obliged to justify herself, she would explain her actions in terms of some altruistic plan. And she might even believe it. But it wasn't that at all. She was like Ivy's grandmother. If you paid fealty to her, she would favor you, and your reputation and power would grow among all the others who did likewise.

You're assuming," Luisa said, "that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward." Doob pulled his tablet closer and started trying to find Tav's blog. "To what extent do you imagine she really is reporting facts about the AC? As opposed to creating the reality she describes?" Doob asked. "What's the difference?" Luisa asked.

It was clear, however, that having made that decision, the Committee would have to explain it, justify it, and perpetuate it by painting the Spacers as alien mutants, and furthermore by cultivating a finely developed sense of racial grievance against the cowards who had run away and abandoned them. All of which had been on vivid display during the brief and disastrous conversation between Doc and the Digger contingent.

She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.