Justification Quotes

• There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

  Martin Luther

  Real, Fruit, Christianity

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• I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

  Albert Einstein

  Mistake, Military, President

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, St. Martin's Press

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• 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.

  J. C. Ryle

  People, Temptation, Together

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• Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grace, Receiving, Saving

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• Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

  Orrin Woodward

  Dream, Leader, Obstacles

  Twitter post from Jul 01, 2016

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• you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Boys, White

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

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• Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

  Martin Luther

  People, Forget, Week

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• We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.

  John Flavel

  Believe, Yield, Blood

  John Flavel (1740). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ... To which are added, alphabetical tables of the texts of Scripture explained; and indexes of principal matters contained in the whole”, p.276

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Faith, Believe, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

  Martin Luther

  Church, Doctrine, Hours

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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

  John Calvin

  True Religion, Turns, Hinges

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Choices, Alternatives

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• 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 conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Believe, Law, Evil

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• The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Jesus, Law

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.264, Hartland Publications

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• Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Lines, Should

  The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)

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• Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

  David Shore

  Safety, Noise, Runway

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• There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Expansion, Existence

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Age, Poverty, Curse

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• I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.

  Richard Wall

  Eye, Sociology, Lively

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• A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Indulge In, Differences

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• Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Judging, Adoption

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.231, InterVarsity Press

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• We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  New Year, Philosophy, Failure

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• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  C. S. Lewis

  Literature, Causes, Reason

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• After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

  John le Carre

  Enemy, Looks, Fool

  John le Carre (2002). “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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