Justification Quotes

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FO...

Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a...

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil...

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and dominat...

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they dis...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

I have no doubt that your acceptance of Christ coincided with some very positive changes in your lif...

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the ob...

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the tr...

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we...

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to just...

I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained...

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolo...

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is no...

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left al...

Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day ...

It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God...

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability...

One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wr...

Harsh justice is still justice.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves

Idealism easily becomes dangerous because it brings with it, almost inevitably, the belief that the ...

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day o...

He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilder...