Justified Quotes

• Justified is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Justified
  • Obeyed
  • Sinned

• I am one of those people who are really short-tempered, but I don't lose it unless it is justified.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • People
  • Lose
  • Justified

• Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.

  

  Colin McGinn
  • Reason
  • Belief
  • Prove

• All I want is to enter my house justified.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • House
  • I Want
  • Justified

• The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • People
  • Speech
  • Affordable

• Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

  

  Geoffrey Elton
  • History
  • Purpose
  • Reconstruction

• As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Reason
  • Actor
  • Find

• Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

  

  Karol Mikuli
  • Emotional
  • Possessed
  • Strengthening

• Simblefield, whose ability to camouflage his ignorance was held in well-justified contempt by the rest of the form.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Ignorance
  • Ability
  • Justified

• We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.

  

  William Jenkyn
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Justified

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

  

  David L. Bazelon
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Members

• I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.

  

  George Jung
  • Evil
  • Pot
  • Heroin

• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • inspirational
  • Justified

• There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

  

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Action
  • Justified
  • Condemned

• The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no party has a right to compel him to contribute to the support of doctrines, which do not meet his approbation. The rate-payer may as reasonably argue, that no one is justified in forcing him to subscribe towards the maintenance of persons, whom he does not consider deserving of relief.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Support
  • Party
  • Charity

• 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
  • Christ
  • Grace

• The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

  

  Tony Blair
  • War
  • Resolution
  • Justified

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

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • War
  • Justified

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