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Example sentences for "justification"

Lexicographically close words:
justiciars; justiciarship; justiciary; justifiable; justifiably; justifications; justificatory; justifie; justified; justifier
  1. Secondly, they condemned the doctrine of Justification by Faith, adding such theological qualifications and reservations as need not, at this distance of time, and on a point devoid of present actuality, be scrupulously entertained.

  2. This was the paradox on which Pomponazzo based his apology, which kept Campanella within the pale of the Church, and to which Bruno appealed for his justification when afterwards arraigned before the Inquisitors at Venice.

  3. Now this peace is given by the Gospel, in the free, full justification of the believer through the perfect atonement and imputed righteousness of the Lord.

  4. Let the doctrine of justification by faith be written on the heart by the Holy Ghost, and there will then be little fear from Popery.

  5. That this hypothesis is by no means without experimental justification is shown by the properties possessed by the typhoid bacillus in regard to its vitality in soil which have been discovered.

  6. The interpretation of this ancient maxim is indeed very modern, and we must turn to the investigations made within the past few years to learn with what justification M.

  7. He resolutely turned his back on the thought of his own side of the matter, and tried to find some justification of Stephen's act.

  8. Justification doth but make us happy, which is to be like angels only.

  9. Her parents were not pleased to see me: the painfully excited condition of their daughter seemed to afford sufficient justification for her complaints against me.

  10. And this I so far succeeded in doing that, to my satisfaction, I learned from all sides that my justification of our action had received the most general acceptance.

  11. I refer you to several of my letters two or three years ago, for the justification of my sentiments on that head.

  12. Justification of the proceedings of General Washington.

  13. Enclosed I send for Congress the justification of this Court against the accusation published in the late English memorials.

  14. He fell asleep, as we can well imagine that he might do, while Rousseau read aloud his very inadequate justification of Providence against Voltaire.

  15. This is the divine order--perfect atonement as the ground of my perfect justification; and perfect justification as the ground of my perfect peace.

  16. Perfect justification is his starting-post, and glory the goal.

  17. Men pronounce just judgment on the sins of others; but when they come to pass sentence on their own, they invent a thousand excuses for justification or leniency: but these excuses do not satisfy themselves.

  18. She has nothing in comparison to her opportunities to produce in justification of her moral and national stewardship.

  19. You have quitted this controversy without any justification from the unexpected nature of our sentiments, and we are persuaded that you can plead no discourtesy in our proposals respecting the mechanical arrangements.

  20. Again, you are aware of the importance attached to the doctrine of Justification by Faith, that test, as it is described, of a rising or a falling church.

  21. In opposition to this Paul contends that justification is by faith, and not by the works of the law—not a faith which implies a mere assent to a series of scholastic propositions, but a faith which consists in a trusting and confiding spirit.

  22. Faith does not precede justification; but justification precedes faith, and makes it justifying.

  23. And forthwith he sat down to write quite a different letter from that which still lay in his private drawer,--a letter which he strove to make the justification (to his own mind) of this descent to humility.

  24. Defiant self-justification was now far to seek.

  25. This prince will not admit it; he gives a thousand reasons in justification of his conquests.

  26. Its justification is in the arduous but untiring, various but harmonious, activities that flow from it: the enhancement of life which it entails.

  27. He finds and feels a truth that cannot fail him, and that satisfies both his heart and mind; a justification of that transcendental feeling which is the soul alike of philosophy and of art.

  28. The great question, of justification by faith in the death of Christ, was the rallying cry of the Reformation.

  29. Nor is there much justification for the denunciation by purists of the "vulgarization" and "abuse" of the "grand old name of gentleman.

  30. What justification have you all in the sight of God?

  31. Work is not everything to a man," he says; "it is not true that justification lies in work .

  32. And in the absence of law the felt need of a formal justification will necessarily appeal to the unformulated equities of the case, with some such outcome as alluded to above.

  33. Some sort of international equity has been pleaded in justification of their demand for an increased share of dominion.

  34. The grave interest that attaches to this question must serve as justification for pursuing it farther, even though there can be no promise of a definite or confident answer to be found beforehand.

  35. While she ate her supper she tried to make a plan, but the excitement within her was growing steadily, and she could only think out eager self-justification for her own decision.

  36. Arguments, self-justification and sick apprehensions, surged in chaotic bewilderment through her mind.

  37. With rather more justification than young folks always possess, she felt herself in the presence of a tragedy; that there was any comedy about also was more likely to strike a looker-on from outside.

  38. Justification number one for the excursion.

  39. Justification number four made matter enough for any brain to hold--and the night-watchman was in luck's way after all.

  40. For this practice no previous example and no justification have been or can be pleaded.

  41. The Frankfurter Zeitung today prints a telegram received from Vienna saying: "The exasperation and contempt which Italy's treacherous surprise attack and her hypocritical justification arouse here (Vienna) are quite indescribable.

  42. And the rule is, that whatever is a justification where the thing is done, must be a justification in the forum where the case is tried.

  43. The regulations to which the food crisis of the fall of 1916 gave justification laid the ax to the middleman system of distribution.

  44. I may say, however, that Count Tisza found in the food question whatever justification there would be needed for anything the Central governments might do.

  45. The result of the election, which took place in July, was regarded as a justification for the Fabian policy of social advance.

  46. I have said that the work of the Society was the interpretation of an existing movement, the explanation and justification of tendencies which originated in Society at large, and not in societies, Fabian or other.

  47. That their memory should be perpetuated is the author's chief justification for the writing of this book.

  48. I see no justification for thus sending down an army upon us.

  49. I intend in a short time to publish a large and rational defence of this art; and therefore shall say no more in its justification at present.

  50. And I had drunk in too profoundly the spirit of Christianity from our many nursery readings, not to read also in its divine words the justification of my own tendencies.


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