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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. -- William Gurnall
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. -- Ron Paul
Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me. -- John Wesley
I'm tired of justifying what I've said. -- Jose Canseco
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. -- Peter Mandelson
When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly. -- Ron Reagan
People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed. -- Lee Greenwood
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. -- Margaret Chase Smith
I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive. -- Scott Stossel
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. -- Orhan Pamuk
One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation. -- Lennie James
In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture. -- Azar Nafisi
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty. -- Samuel Hopkins
We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect. -- Michael Fassbender
But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business. -- Marco Rubio
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? -- Ron Reagan
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on. -- Derek Jacobi
Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful. -- Isaiah Washington
Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying. -- Stephen Covey
I never understood using Kickstarter for commercial purposes. If you want to raise money for commercial purposes, I think you should give someone a dividend. They make money, then you make money. It should be an investment, whereas I think Kickstarter's true purpose is raising money for things that are in and of themselves justifying. -- Kurt Braunohler
The types of climbing that I choose to do I'm good at justifying. I do really try and pick things that I'm going to live through. I don't want to die, and I'm relatively cautious. I play with that line all the time. I want things that are very exciting, so much so that they can feel almost spiritual. -- Tommy Caldwell
The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits. -- Jochen Zeitz
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. -- Voltaire
Even alone we go on justifying ourselves. -- Mason Cooley
Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them -- Karen Marie Moning
I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself. -- Joseph Mitchell
Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples. -- Pema Chodron
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. -- Daniel Goleman
Oh my, justifying reasons why Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by ((Live High)) -- Jason Mraz
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. -- St. Jerome
None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself. -- Charles Spurgeon
Don't hold onto negative feelings by justifying why you are right and someone else is wrong. -- Deepak Chopra
Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners. -- Timothy Keller
The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us. -- Byron Katie
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Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. -- Jean Kilbourne
Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life. -- IU?. I. Manin
Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff. -- Esther Hicks
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods -- Margaret Chase Smith
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. -- Ralph Ellison
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice. -- C. S. Lewis
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works. -- John Owen
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart. -- Leo Tolstoy
I do not support individual countries taking military action against another country because of its human rights record, or subsequently justifying taking such action on human rights grounds. -- Mary Robinson
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour. -- Edward Abbey
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do. -- Jack London
The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura. -- Carl Schmitt
Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence. -- Tony Blair
The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it. -- Anthony Greenwald
I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that. -- Charlize Theron
As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people. -- Iqbal Sacranie
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves. -- Thomas Szasz
I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality. -- Rita Mae Brown
Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other's skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities. -- Anthony Liccione
Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory. -- Daniel Goleman
There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands. -- Wendell Berry

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