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Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.
Hamza Yusuf
'It is unnecessary to validate God's being; He is. We need to explain our own presence.'
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
John Calvin
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
Robert Greene
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The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
R. C. Sproul
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It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.
John Wesley
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Salman Rushdie
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
Man Ray
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Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Lord Chesterfield
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Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.
Glenn Greenwald
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
Dallas Willard
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You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
Tori Amos
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The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.
Pope Pius XII
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Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Milan Kundera
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Success in one role can't justify failure in another.
Stephen Covey
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes
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The result justifies the deed.
Ovid
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You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
Steve Lacy
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
Margaret Atwood
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That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
Max Barry
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I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.
Robbie Williams
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Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.
Witold Walczak
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp
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It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.
John Calvin
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Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.
George Deukmejian
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You sell on emotion, but you justify a purchase with logic.
Joseph Sugarman
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If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
Seth MacFarlane
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The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.
Lin Yutang
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I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves.
Osmel Sousa
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The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.
Penn Jillette
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Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.
Alexandra Stoddard
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The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.
Haruki Murakami
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You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.
Gary Lineker
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So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.
Saint Augustine
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
Timothy Keller
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Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.
Karen Marie Moning
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So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.
Kent Conrad
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It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.
Susan Sontag
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Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.
Manisha Sinha
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People will justify whatever for a good cause.
Julie Taymor
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You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
Tori Amos
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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche