Quotes about Justice
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
— Desmond Tutu
There are no small sins against a great God.
— JI Packer
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
— Thomas Paine
The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God's justice.
— RC Sproul
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
— William Wilberforce
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.
— Timothy Keller
Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.
— Joseph Addison
God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
— JI Packer
Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
— RC Sproul
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
— Anselm of Canterbury
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
— Thomas Jefferson