Quotes about Justice

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

it's clear that God didn't create women to be passive victims waiting to be saved by men.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

Scripture tells us to submit to governing authorities. That's a valid command—most of the time. However, when we fear God, there comes a time when we must resist human government and yield to a higher authority. Government is given to protect the good and to punish the bad (see Romans 13:3). When government protects the bad and punishes the good, then our submission to legal authority may have to end. This becomes the source of persecution for righteousness' sake.

It's not that we don't know the principles of righteousness. The issue is whether we have the courage to act on them.

Love is mathematically just. — Love, and you shall be loved — all love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.

There howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronizing lee of churches. For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.