“People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
“The ongoing function of God’s law is not to serve as a standard to be met for justification but as a guide… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I think it's for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation; I believe in… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
“The defense of necessity is considered a justification defense, as compared with an excuse defense such as duress. An action that is… — Massad Ayoob 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
If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks… — C. I. Scofield Copy Share Image
Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when… — Timothy Keller 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
“Many have found it hard to see what claim the law can have on the Christian. We are free from the law,… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious. — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code. — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit. — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough, to stand before… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Justification is a legal declaration that the sinner is acquitted from the guilt of sin, and is considered righteous before God.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than… — Mike Rinder Copy Share Image
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
![“We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.” quote by Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f01/albert-camus-47_common_we-writers-must-know-that-we-can-never-e_2117678.jpg)
