Best 138 quotes in «justification quotes» category

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

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.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for the subjugation and legal ownership of other human beings based upon the construction of race as a biological phenomenon.

Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

Popularity has become its own justification.

Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no justification for any group that associates itself with the Left to kill innocents and encourage suicide bombings.

Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

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.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

A justified person dies and rises in Christ, and so is delivered from sin, death and domination of flesh. Justification is, to introduce my neologism, a "deliverdict," a forensic act, a judicial verdict that in its very forensic character is an act of deliverance. It is a favorable judgement in the form of resurrection.

After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolong a dying race's agonies for ten or twenty years. The merciful plowman shoots a trusty horse grown too old for service. As philanthropists, might it not be our duty to likewise ameliorate the savages' sufferings by hastening their extinction? Think of your Red Indians, Adam, think on the treaties you Americans abrogate & renege on, time & time & time again. More humane, surely & more honest, just to knock the savages on the head & get it over with?

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.

Antinous sighed. 'The gods wanted to destroy us,' he said. 'That's everyone's excuse for behaving badly,' I said.

All prayers that beseech the mercy of God are finally and fully answered in that suffering Servant Whom God sent, Jesus Christ. We, even our desires, are saved because HE was bruised.