I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks,… — Don Young Copy Share Image
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification. — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it. — H. L. Mencken 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
Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
“A justified person dies and rises in Christ, and so is delivered from sin, death and domination of flesh. Justification is, to… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification.… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood… — Theodor Adorno 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 guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical… — Hans Reichenbach 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
Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
