“Sometimes man has a tendency to look at someone else’s situation in order to find some type of justification or validation with… — E.N. Joy Copy Share Image
“It always starts with one. That's how justification works. But once you justify something once, you can do it again. It becomes… — Batman, Injustice Copy Share Image
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to… — Billy Magnussen Copy Share Image
She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
“God never grants justification without also giving sanctification at the same time ... Sanctification in us begins as an instantaneous act of… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of justification by faith—a Biblical truth, and a blessed relief from sterile legalism and unavailing self-effort—has in our time fallen… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth… and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the… — Daniel Seligman Copy Share Image
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
“The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man. — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
“In the implicit hierarchy of values reflected in the Bible, principles are higher than laws and give justification for them.” — Rubel Shelly Copy Share Image
Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life? — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It always starts with one. That's how justification works. But once you justify something once, you can do it again and again.… — Batman, Injustice Copy Share Image
Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal. — Moby Copy Share Image
An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing… — Paul D. MacLean Copy Share Image
“Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory.” — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is… — Levy Mwanawasa Copy Share Image
I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
