There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real. — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often… — Richard Wall Copy Share Image
“My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start, So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
“Isn't that the justification used by every scientist who made something wonderful, only to discover that they've made something terrible? 'We did… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood. — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
You can't justify the things you have done wrong. What's done is done. But you can change now and be a better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are,… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to… — Franz Kafka 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
I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — Naomi Wolf 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
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
“When smart people do dumb things it’s usually due to one of two things. The two things are greed and fear. They… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do. — Becky Sauerbrunn 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
“When God justifies a sinner everything in God is on the sinner's side.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate. — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
