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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. -- C. S. Lewis
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. -- Charles Spurgeon
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance. -- J. I. Packer
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. -- Arthur Miller
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution. -- Don Young
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism. -- Shai Linne
Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns. -- John Calvin
To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification -- George Lois
Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns -- Charles Simeon
Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes. -- Kevin DeYoung
Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification. -- William J. Seymour
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of "just this once. -- Clayton M. Christensen
You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP -- John Paul Warren
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Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles. -- Jodi Picoult
The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God. -- C. J. Mahaney
Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification. -- Tullian Tchividjian
To seek a justification for a decision already made. -- Ambrose Bierce
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't. -- Oskar Schindler
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence. -- Alan Dershowitz
There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it. -- H. L. Mencken
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. -- Thomas Huxley
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. -- Simone de Beauvoir
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. -- Freda Adler
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech. -- Alan Dershowitz
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. -- Joseph Conrad
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. -- Arthur Erickson
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior? -- Dan Gelber
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification. -- Malcolm Wallop
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification. -- Richard Wall
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow. -- Martin Luther
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents. -- William J. Clinton
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal. -- Andrew Cohen
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. -- Edward de Bono
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. -- Derek Bok
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification. -- Michael Servetus
Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed. -- David Shore
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. -- Albert Bandura
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. -- Bertrand Russell
These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people. -- Jacques Chirac
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires. -- Kevin DeYoung
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. -- Amy Winehouse
When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil. -- Ayn Rand
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet. -- John Lynch
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one. -- Tullian Tchividjian
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. -- Kate Adie
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since. -- Amy Waldman
Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects. -- Ben Shapiro
Fanatics clouded by self-justification. -- Toba Beta
Self-justification is a treacherous servant. -- Wellington Mara
Popularity has become its own justification. -- Jonathan Franzen
I am not your justification for existence. -- Margaret Atwood
The only justification of rebellion is success. -- Thomas Reed
Hope likes justification, but can do without. -- Mason Cooley
Any reason could be made for self-justification. -- Toba Beta
Action that is clearly right needs no justification. -- Elisabeth Elliot
There is no justification for having an affair. -- Shanola Hampton
Division of labor is a justification for sloth. -- Leo Tolstoy
The truest interpretations are those with the best justification. -- Bernard Ramm
Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego. -- Sivananda
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. -- Storm Jameson
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works. -- William Carey
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns. -- Calvin Coolidge
The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. -- Jessica Walter
It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing. -- Karen Armstrong
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps religion provides the justification for wars, but science provides the weapons. -- James Rozoff
Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program. -- Jinzaburo Takagi
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't -- Thomas Keneally
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification. -- Laurence Tribe
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. -- Carol Tavris
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. -- Miguel Syjuco
All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real. -- Constantin Stanislavski
Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions. -- Hideki Yukawa
If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate. -- Greg Koukl
The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model. -- Terence McKenna
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up. -- Jesse Jackson
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense. -- John Alfred Langford
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. -- Richard Dawkins
It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible. -- Ashly Lorenzana
Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest. -- Dario Fo
Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock. -- Ted Cruz
Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal. -- Moby
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. -- Thomas Jefferson
If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell. -- Stacy Aumonier
To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification. -- Emanuel Lasker
Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life? -- Laura Marling
[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. -- Christopher Hitchens
When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. -- Brian K. Vaughan
The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit. -- Paul Washer
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. -- Janet Burroway
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification. -- Paul David Tripp
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it. -- Martin Luther
This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence. -- Albert Camus
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. -- Walter Lippmann
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. -- C. S. Lewis
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. -- Arthur Miller
By all means, avoid words"?threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. -- Ashley Montagu
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. -- Stephen Harper
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. -- Marianne Williamson
She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood. -- F.B. Meyer
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. -- Ayn Rand

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