I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justificat...
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctific...
Surely it is the one who fears he is wrong who avoids criticism. The one who is sure he is right invites it. It only illuminates the strength of beliefs and makes them more available to others.
There might be some sort of justification for the savage societies in which a man had to expect that enemies could murder him at any moment and had to defend himself as best as he could. But there can be no justification for a society in which a man ...
In inventing [General Juan Manuel de] Rosas’ self-justification, I have taken the liberty of drawing almost exclusively on the words of Tony Blair, and the various self-justifications he produced to defend his foreign policy adventures with George ...
There is no justification for having an affair.
We all know dogmatists who are more concerned about holding their opinions than about investigating their truth. ... if they are mistaken, they will never discover it; they have condemned themselves to perpetual error. Human beings (including myself)...
I do not have it in for relativism. In many respects I find it a fascinating, even attractive, alternative. It engenders epistemological humility, defeats an arrogant pomposity in belief, even promotes a sort of democratic ideal in matters of knowled...
Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.
Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an asp...
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.
The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
Perhaps religion provides the justification for wars, but science provides the weapons.
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
