Spiritual Justification Quotes

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

When private property ceases to make free men, its only spiritual justification goes. Democracy and the widespread distribution of private property go together.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.

No ideology should ever get a pass simply because it is cloaked in a religious robe.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.

No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.