Quotes about Justification

probably know someone whose energy is devoted to justifying his or her position in an ongoing negative relationship. If you look, you can sometimes see beyond behavior into the center that creates it.

When we are dependent on the person with whom we are in conflict, both need and conflict are compounded. Love-hate over-reactions, fight-or-flight tendencies, withdrawal, aggressiveness, bitterness, resentment, and cold competition are some of the usual results. When these occur, we tend to fall even further back on background tendencies and habits in an effort to justify and defend our own behavior and we attack our spouse's. Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need

Life can be meaningful enough to justify its suffering

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.

Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

Sometimes we do the wrong thing for the right reason. We've all been there.

Every time we believe God, He credits it to our account as righteousness.

Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30

What does the Scripture say? " Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness." Romans 4:3