We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Sin is the transgression of the law, the death of Christ is the satisfaction of the law, justification is the verdict of… — Ernest Kevan Copy Share Image
What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ...… — David Shore Copy Share Image
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Romans explains how God can justify the ungodly. "Justification" is a declaration by God that we are righteous only in Christ. We… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening.… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I am not saying this to serve as a justification for the things [Pablo Escobar] did, but rather to demonstrate the context… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ground of our justification is God’s act of redemption in Jesus Christ. So Paul writes, “Since all have sinned and fall… — J. Rodman Williams Copy Share Image
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have… — Marilyn Yalom Copy Share Image
Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
You guys that worry about eating clean are actually merely bodybuilders looking for justification for your obsession with abs. You cannot get… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
“Expressed in theological terms, “In justification our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. .… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them.… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow,… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
I talk about things in music that I would never talk about with my best friends, which I think seems like a… — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works,… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image