There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Whoever believed in Jesus Christ, shall be justified by faith in Son of God.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense. — John Alfred Langford Copy Share Image
I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't. — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
All presidents - particularly war presidents, presidents inclined to the imperial presidency - invoke Abraham Lincoln as a justification, but they omit… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“The moral justification of capitalism is man’s right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality... Homosexuality means the… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“Justification is an eschatological fact that has occurred in history. It means acquittal from the guilt of sin by a favorable decision… — George Eldon Ladd Copy Share Image
Our justification from sins takes place at the point of saving faith, not at the point of water baptism, which usually occurs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
The most important thing to me is that the president Donald Trump fired the FBI director James Comey all because of the… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
I'm against the theory of the multinational corporations who say if you are against hunger you must be for GMO. That's wrong,… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate. — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
“When God justifies a sinner everything in God is on the sinner's side.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do. — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
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