Quotes about Justification
It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
- Tony Campolo
In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.
- Nancy Pearcey
God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!
- Joyce Meyer
This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.
- Martin Luther
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.
- NT Wright
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
- William Faulkner
Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.
- Martin Luther
By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.
- Oswald Chambers
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
- CS Lewis