15 quotes found
“It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.”
“Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.”
“Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him onward, and that a supernatural power had obstructed his retreat.”
“I have no doubt that your acceptance of Christ coincided with some very positive changes in your life. Perhaps you now love other people in a way that you never imagined possible. You may even expe...”
“If all meaning were relative, then the meanings of the terms in the proposition "All meaning is relative" would be relative. Therefore the proposition "All meaning is relative" destroys itself. It ...”
“I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.”
“To use the past to justify the present is bad enoughbut its just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”
“I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of...”
“most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must do and become, God will love me and accept me.”
“We start under-estimating our capabilities, when we start repeating the failure reasons given by others to justify their lack of effort. Market is very slow is one common reason. The market never s...”
“Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can - soc...”
“To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”
