3,189 Quotes About Justice

my elder told me once to care for most people exactly as one would for children, and for some of them as one would for the sick in hospitals.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didn't tell us to go to church. He didn't tell us to engage in a spiritualized version of channel surfing, as we hop from place to place in search of just the right programming to entertain us. He told us to get out and actually do the stuff he'd already been doing, painting the hope of God's reign on the canvas of God's world. He told us we're artists.

There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.

I see the fight against sexism, racism, poverty, and even war finding their union not in synonymity but in their ultimate goal — a world more humane.

Seeking justice in this world is such a selfish thing but giving justice reflects being a child of God.

In these symbols Christ is exhibited as a sacrifice; and expiation is needed only where there is no merit -- where there is positive demerit -- where the individual atoned for has become obnoxious to justice, and must depend for salvation on other righteousness than his own. -- David King, "The Lord's Supper

[...] in the context of a flood of dark news concerning climate change, refugees and globalization, how can a poem not only provide a pause to remember, but a place of hope: a new plateau of care, compassion and justice?