When God justifies a sinner everything in God is on the sinner’s side.

Predestination therefore, as it regards the thing itself, is the Decree of the good pleasure of God in Christ, by which He resolved within Himself from all eternity, to justify, adopt, and endow with everlasting...

Countries have no justification for secrecy.

Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it.

They are obviously making the case to tighten. There is no justification to speed up or slow down. We will end the year with rates at 4 percent or 4.25 percent. It depends on whether...

A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

There can be no excuse or justification for harming a person whose only goal was to serve the cause of peace and justice for people of all faiths.

She’s flat out wrong. The only justification for special taxes is to pay for administrative costs. The U.S. Supreme Court has said that First Amendment businesses can’t be singled out for special taxes.

We have limited resources, unlimited vulnerability, and a flexible adversary. There are many cities that can make a good justification, but our limited resources have to be spent wisely.

Survival justifies any means.

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.

Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him onward, and that a supernatural power had obstructed his retreat.

The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having a disposition to responsive hearing. Grace flows ordinarily from prevenient grace through the...

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

It’s said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Luther’s doctrine of justification depends upon two things: the constant preaching of the wrath of God in the face of sin; and the realization that every Christian is at once righteous and a sinner, thus...

Harsh justice is still justice.

Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.

The main conclusion of the report is that there appears to be no justification at this time for EU-wide legislation.

People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their own.

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any...

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

Except in a very few matches, usually with world-class performers, there is a point in every match (and in some cases it’s right at the beginning) when the loser decides he’s going to lose. And...

I have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we’re going to take this summer.” I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home...

That sounds like they’re saying we’ll save money because we’re not at war. There’s no justification in the report, so no way for me to check and see if this is as stupid as it...

There is no justification for what happened this afternoon in Dublin. Sinn Fein had appealed to people to ignore this loyalist parade and not to be provoked by it. Our view was that it should...

He turned to her – his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how...

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

The world hates the truth and all that share it, and so if you share truth eventually you will be hated by the world if you are not ready.

The main factors that sponsor the abuse of time include procrastination and excuses. Procrastination makes you to shift a task that you can do now into the unseen future; excuses are the reasons why you...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

Mediocrity is ‘purpose’ left to rot in minds ensnared in the deluded rationalization that vision is nothing more than a collection of fanciful dreams constructed by an imaginary God.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves

most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must do and become, God will love me and accept me.

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...