Justified Quotes - Page 14

• It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.

  Adolph Saphir

  Believe, Justification, One Thing

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• It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

  Clive James

  Thinking, People, Might

  Clive James (2008). “Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts”, p.215, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

  Thucydides

  Safety, Opponents, Causes

  Thucydides (1996). “The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War”

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• The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

  N. T. Wright

  Energy, Enabling, Spirit

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Steps, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.252, Graphic Arts Books

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• Creation did not take millions of years. We can hardly be justified in trying to harmonize the days of creation with the extended periods of millions of years according to the reckoning of the so-called scientists.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Years, Trying, Scientist

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• We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk.

  Alan Cohen

  Attitude, Eye, Two

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• You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Evil, Doe

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• If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.

  Francis Quarles

  Sorry, Journey, Pace

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• I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

  Justin Timberlake

  Needed

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• Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

  Albert Camus

  Challenges, Age, Peculiar

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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• Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Ignorance, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.107, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Pain, Atheism, Coercion

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• Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, People, Liberty

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• Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Wise, Healing, Ideas

  D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.48, Fearless Books

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• Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  War, Cities, Soldier

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• If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Evil, Would Be, Action

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.593, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Eye, Origin Of Life, Law

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• If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

  Ernie Pyle

  War, Thinking, Might

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• If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that he would be silly if he surrendered any decent opportunity of exercising his one talent in order to do undistinguished work in other fields. Such a sacrifice could be justified only by economic necessity of age.

  G. H. Hardy

  Real, Silly, Sacrifice

  "A Mathematician's Apology".

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• As Paul argues, it is the righteousness of God that is revealed in the law, and this condemns us all (Ro 1:18 - 3:20), while the gospel reveals the righteousness from God, namely, that we "are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Ro 3:24).

  Michael Horton

  Jesus, Law, Grace

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• The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Martin Luther (1830). “A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.402

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• There are no justified resentments.

  Wayne Dyer

  Resentment

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace”, p.91, Hay House, Inc

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• Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Long, Greek

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.56, Routledge

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• Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

  David L. Bazelon

  Believe, Law, Society

  David L. Bazelon (1988). “Questioning Authority: Justice and Criminal Law”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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