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Quotes About Justice

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
~ Pierre Trudeau
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.
~ David Platt
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
~ Plato
What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.
~ Dorothy Day
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
~ John Calvin
If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
~ R. C. Sproul
None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.
~ Matthew Henry
I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.
~ Tupac Shakur
I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.
~ James Otis
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
~ Khalil Gibran
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
~ Joni Mitchell
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
~ Thomas Paine
Resistance to tyranny is service to God.
~ James Madison
Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
~ Stockwell Day
Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.
~ Robert Pierce
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
~ Andy Stanley
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
~ Thomas Paine
Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?
~ Vincent de Paul
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
~ George Eliot
I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.
~ Jayne Mansfield
God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.
~ Oscar Wilde
Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.
~ Alexandre Dumas