Self-Justification Obscures The Voice of Truth

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

— Michael Servetus

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

— Stacy Aumonier

“I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I have to…

— Daniel Willey

“Expressed in theological terms, “In justification our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one thing needful.…

— Michael L. Brown

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

— Bernard Berenson

An excuse is a justification to make the soul feel good.

— Regina Baker

Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is…

— Jerry Saltz

You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,…

— Jonathan Haidt

“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with such a…

— C. F. W. Walther

“Self-justification is the enemy of repentance.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Robert Mugabe

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the…

— Bob Hawke