Quotes about Justification

When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.

My pastor had told me that forgiveness doesn't mean justifying or condoning what he did, but it would begin the process of freeing me from the past, and it would offer a lost person the opportunity for redemption.

Many Christians claim to believe in Jesus, but only a minority can articulate good reasons for why their beliefs are true.

Now I've gotten saved. Now whatever I do can't unsave me. Even if I killed somebody, I can't ever be unsaved now.

When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.

He who created you without you will not justify you without you.

Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: Forgive us our debts, because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

When the apostle James was talking about faith and works against those who thought their faith was enough, and didnt want to have good works, he said, You believe God is one; you do well; the demons also believe, and tremble.

When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.