Quotes about Justification

If in reading the Bible you find justification for abusing, humiliating, disgracing, harming, or hurting, especially when it makes you feel better about yourself, you are absolutely wrong.

Someone is reckoned as upright not by practicing the Law but by faith in Jesus Christ" (Galatians 2:16)?

Grace is a state or condition in which we stand (see Romans 5:2).

Rationalization begins with a look in the mirror.

The more we try to justify ourselves, the more we collide with our inability to do so. The more burdens we take on, the more we burden others with our unmet needs. Is it any wonder that our words do not help and our presence does not heal?

Hous vivons aux temps des assassins —"we live in days of assassins"—where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience.

Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification.

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.

but they mean well, I remind myself. Is that ever a convincing excuse when there's blood on the carpet?

He can see the point of venison, of killing to eat, but to have a cut-off head on your wall? What does it prove, except that a deer can't pull a trigger?