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...

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.