Quotes about Justification
No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.
— John Wesley
May we all thus experience what it is to be not almost only, but altogether Christians! Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus, knowing we have peace with God through Jesus Christ, rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, and having the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the l holy Ghost given unto us!
— John Wesley
But this doctrine has been much abused." So has that of justification by faith. But that is no reason for giving up either this or any other scriptural doctrine. "When you wash your child," as one speaks, "throw away the water; but do not throw away the child.
— John Wesley
being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus; knowing we have peace with God through Jesus Christ; rejoicing in hope of the glory of God; and having the love of God shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost given unto us!
— John Wesley
Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.
— Ray Comfort
Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....
— Donald Trump
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
— Mark Twain
No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying.
— Mark Twain
Whatever I was, I owed to my family and to all those who struggled with me. But my biggest debt I owed to my wife. She was the one who gave my life meaning. All I could pledge to her, and to all those millions, was that I would do all I could to justify the faith that she, and they, had in me. I would try more than ever to make my life one of which she, and they, could be proud. I would do in private that which I knew my public responsibility demanded.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is without a reason why it is rather than it is not
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
— Ayn Rand