I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they...

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

Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious barbarities – wars and massacres, acts of terrorism, the Inquisition, the Crusades, the...

It’s only when we understand [Jesus’] presence in the church as being the fulfillment of God’s promise in Zephaniah 3:17 to “quiet you with his love” and “rejoice over you with singing” that a crucial...

Most people, if they know they have done wrong, foolishly suppose they can conceal their error by defending it, and finding a justification for it; but in my belief there is only one medicine for...

being self-reliant doesn’t justify becoming selfish

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to...

To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and...

The justification cited was increased costs of services and supplies. We don’t have any written documentation.

In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had not been specifically condemned as heretical by the Council of Carthage. In the...

Now the valley cried with anger, “Mount your horses draw your sword.” And they killed the mountain people, so they won their just reward. Now they stood beside the treasure, on the mountain dark and...

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

It is hard to see the justification for ratcheting the national PM standard lower at this point.

What, then, is the difference which He has made to the whole human mass? It is just this; that the business of becoming a son of God, of being turned from a created thing into...

I think that there is no justification or excuse for the Sunnis to boycott. We have met all their demands and accepted all their suggestions. Now it is their national duty to take part in...

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

Sacrament of Penance” (1519), he set forth this meaning of repentance or conversion and developed the glorious thought that the most important part of penitence consists not in private confession (which cannot be found in...

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual’s sovereignty.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of “their own people,” to the exclusion of other human beings.

I’m not good enough; Oh, I’m not good enough,” you are denying God – you are denying the gospel – you are denying the very essence of the faith and you will never be happy....

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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

I can explain why I have to do what I’m about to do, but I’m acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What’s bad is bad even if necessary.

We cry down the law in respect of justification, but we set it up as a rule of sanctification. The law sends us to the Gospel that we may be justified; and the Gospel sends...

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ’s forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

The best studies that we have to date would suggest there’s not a lot of justification for using these medications because they haven’t been shown to work.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, ‘atheism’ is a term that should not even exist. No one...

I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer’s, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, ‘Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who...

We’re seeing a bubble bursting in the bond market. It was way overdone; there was really no justification for bonds being at [such a low] yield.

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as freedom FROM, it isn’t simply a matter of being forced now to be...

I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic hypothesis sought in vain for hundreds and thousands of years. The...

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

I’m in good shape. That shape is round.

I have no doubt that your acceptance of Christ coincided with some very positive changes in your life. Perhaps you now love other people in a way that you never imagined possible. You may even...

My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start,So if I’m treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.(attrib: E. Tancarville)

Sin is the transgression of the law, the death of Christ is the satisfaction of the law, justification is the verdict of the law, and sanctification is the believer’s fulfillment of the law.

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right,...

It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God’s law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust...

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

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

There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more.

Better exert power than justify it!