Justification Quotes

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

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.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

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

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.