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
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
This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification… — John L. Lewis 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
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's… — Arlen Specter 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
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
Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now. — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
“Because we find something distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.” — Moby Copy Share Image
“An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language. — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The fact that our hearts don't all speak in the same way is not cause or justification to discriminate. — Chuck Robb Copy Share Image
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
