Quotes about Justification

We are all so blinded and upset by self-love that everyone imagines he has a just right to exalt himself and to undervalue all others in comparison to self.

By these words it is plain he does not make love the cause of forgiveness, but the proof of it.

Let then the faithful learn to embrace him, not only for justification, but also for sanctification, as he has been given to us for both these purposes, lest they rend him asunder by their mutilated faith.

For if anyone is to possess righteousness by faith, it must necessarily be given by God and proffered to us by his Word.

A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...

And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world. But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.