Top 551 Justification Quotes & Sayings

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric. It is more than a question of God simply seeing us through a legal scrim of Christ's righteousness. Righteousness actually begins to transform us.

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean "becoming a Christian from cold." In the classic Reformed tradition, the word "justification" is much more fine-tuned than that and has to do with a verdict which is pronounced, rather than with something happening to you in terms of actually being born again. So that I'm actually much closer to some classic Reformed writing on this than some people perhaps realize.

Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

Action that is clearly right needs no justification.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.

There is no justification for having an affair.

A culture of intimidation has no justification in any administration.

What's the justification for a semiautomatic weapon with a magazine of 30 rounds?

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice

U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do.

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.

When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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 sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification.

Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach seem natural, then your questions concern the context of discovery. When you ask whether the argument the philosopher puts forth to answer that question is sound, or whether the evidence justifies the scientific theory proposed, then you've entered the context of justification. Considerations of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology are relevant to the context of discovery, but not to justification.

I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too - a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

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 aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

I am not your justification for existence.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

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.

There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is never found without the other. All justified people are sanctified, and all sanctified people are justified. ... Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ's work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit's work in you.

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system.

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

Popularity has become its own justification.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

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 justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.