Justified Quotes
Justified Quote of the day
The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.
Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.
We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.
Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.
The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.
Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.
Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.
As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.
What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.
It matters not whether these weapons of ours are humane: if they gain us our freedom, they are justified before our conscience and before our God.
People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.
In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.
Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.
It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.
The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.