Quotes About Justice

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness.

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

Word to God, we murderers.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.

Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great.

The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.