Justification Quotes

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We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work… — John Flavel
Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals,… — Walt Whitman
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. — Moliere
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the… — Thomas Szasz
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:… — Albert Einstein
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with… — Norman Cousins
If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the… — Neil Postman
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification… — Amy Waldman
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really… — Criss Jami
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's. — Mary Anne Radmacher
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and… — Donald Miller
Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only… — Marion Milner
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification:… — Gerhard Richter
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present… — Jonathan Sacks
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers… — Alan Lightman
Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or… — Brennan Manning
If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with,… — Bob Torres
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which… — Sophie Swetchine

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