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• The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Grace, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.10, SCM Press

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• As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, War, Views

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• There are no justified resentments.

  Wayne Dyer

  Resentment

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace”, p.91, Hay House, Inc

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• For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

  Thucydides

  Safety, Opponents, Causes

  Thucydides (1996). “The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War”

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• It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

  Clive James

  Thinking, People, Might

  Clive James (2008). “Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts”, p.215, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit evil, do so by shielding themselves in the authority of others, in their subordination, or in the excuse of following orders. And even worse are those who believe they are justified by their God.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Believe, Men, Order

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• It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.

  Adolph Saphir

  Believe, Justification, One Thing

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• We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk.

  Alan Cohen

  Attitude, Eye, Two

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• The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Martin Luther (1830). “A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.402

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• One of the most important things in any leader or in any successful approach is to focus on connecting with people and really listening to them. We shouldn't just be saying, oh yes, the people are protesting. We need to ask them why they are protesting and try and figure out if there is something we can do to bring them in and respond to those concerns. That's not populism - that's being thoughtfully open to the fact that our citizens are allowed to have, and are even justified in having, very real concerns and questions for the people responsible for serving them.

  Justin Trudeau

  Real, Successful, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The skepticism that has grown up about elites is totally justified. Since 2008, no one has gone to jail on Wall Street for the crash and elites have not been able to fix the problem, right? We haven't managed to fix post manufacturing job growth. We haven't fixed the issues to do with immigration.

  Katty Kay

  Wall, Growth, Immigration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we had a technological revolution we had this fear. So if you look backwards, these fears were not justified, and I think they were driven by our very human inability to visualize what new jobs will be created by this new technology.

  Branko Milanovic

  Technology, Thinking, New Job

  Source: gawker.com

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• I think it was fully justified after 9/11 to initiate a military action against Afghanistan, because we hoped to create a democracy, and have a flourishing economy, and to do away with al-Qaida, and to capture Osama bin Laden.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Thinking, Democracy

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• I am different from Putin, that Russia should not isolate itself. Everything that happens in our country is justified through Syria or Ukraine. But when one's own citizens only make 300 euros, one can't have much clout in foreign policy.

  Alexei Navalny

  Country, Different, Foreign Policy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.

  Penn Jillette

  Lying, Nuts, People

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

  David L. Bazelon

  Believe, Law, Society

  David L. Bazelon (1988). “Questioning Authority: Justice and Criminal Law”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music.

  Steve Winwood

  Country, Winning, Rocks

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• There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

  Mao Zedong

  Principles, Finals, Analysis

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• In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

  Julian Barnes

  Anxiety, Usual, Firsts

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• We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2005.

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• Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

  Jon Meacham

  Running, Thinking, Umpires

  "Why Obama Shouldn’t Declare War on the Supreme Court" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. April 2, 2012.

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• I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

  Grace Paley

  Husband, Years, Library

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.129, Macmillan

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• You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Children, Patriotic

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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• If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.

  Francis Quarles

  Sorry, Journey, Pace

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• I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

  Justin Timberlake

  Needed

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