Quotes About Restorative justice

Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

the cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way to do this was to go beyond retributive justice to restorative justice, to move on to forgiveness, because without it there was no future.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

God's justice is a saving, healing, restorative justice, because the God to whom justice belongs is the Creator God who has yet to complete his original plan for creation and whose justice is designed not simply to restore balance to a world out of kilter but to bring to glorious completion and fruition the creation, teeming with life and possibility, that he made in the first place.

Our confidence in the future restorative justice of God may even give us confidence to do justice ourselves in the present. We are called then, to stretch out the arms of our minds and hearts and to find ourselves Christ shaped, cross shaped, at the intersection of the past present and future of God's time and our own time. This is a place of intense pain and intense joy, the sort that perhaps only music or poetry can express or embody.

It took not only genius but considerable [70] chutzpah to see, and to say, that the symbol which spoke of the horrible 'justice' of Caesar's empire could now speak of the restorative justice of the true God.

Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments.

Ni la búsqueda de justicia con ánimo vengativo por parte de los vencedores ni el olvido por decreto son actitudes deseables.

then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:

The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.

You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.

Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.

You have heard that it was said, ëEye for eye and tooth for tooth.í

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Jesus answered, “I tell you, not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!

Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.