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Quotes About Justice

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
~ Heraclitus
There are no small sins against a great God
~ J. I. Packer
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
~ Simone Weil
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
~ Albert Einstein
[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
~ Bashar al-Assad
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
~ Johan Huizinga
Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart.
~ John of Kronstadt
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.
~ R. C. Sproul
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
~ William Wilberforce
It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
~ Friedrich von Logau
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.
~ Timothy Keller
The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.
~ Milton Steinberg
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me
~ Mother Jones
God does not punish us for our sins but by them.
~ Ruth Graham
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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
I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.
~ Max Lucado
Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance".
~ Helen Prejean
God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
~ J. I. Packer
Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
~ R. C. Sproul
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
~ Anselm of Canterbury