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Quotes About Justice

Let us create the social space that brings Truth, Mercy, Justice, and Peace together within a conflicted group or setting. Then energies are crystallized that create deeper understanding and unexpected new paths, leading toward restoration and reconciliation.
~ John Paul Lederach
Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.
~ John Perry Barlow
Racial and ethnic segragtion is a gospel issue! Cephas' fear and wihdrawal from fellowship across ethnic lines was "not in step with the truth of the gospel." Christ had died to tear down this wall.
~ John Piper
The supremacy of God in all things is the great reward we long for in fasting. His supremacy in our own affections and in all our life-choices. His supremacy in the purity of the church. His supremacy in the salvation of the lost. His supremacy in the establishing of righteousness and justice. And his supremacy for the joy of all peoples in the evangelization of the world.
~ John Piper
No man," Wilberforce wrote, "has a right to be idle." "Where is it," he asked, "that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?
~ John Piper
It would seem more appropriate to say that we are debtors to God's justice, not to his grace.
~ John Piper
If you hold a grudge, you doubt the Judge.
~ John Piper
We will never stand in awe of being loved by God until we reckon with the seriousness of our sin and the justice of his wrath against us. But when, by grace, we waken to our unworthiness, then we may look at the suffering and death of Christ and say, "In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the [wrath-absorbing] propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10).
~ John Piper
In Jesus Christ, he says, meet infinite highness and infinite condescension; infinite justice and infinite grace; infinite glory and lowest humility; infinite majesty and transcendent meekness; deepest reverence toward God and equality with God; worthiness of good and the greatest patience under the suffering of evil; a great spirit of obedience and supreme dominion over heaven and earth; absolute sovereignty and perfect resignation; self-sufficiency and an entire trust and reliance on God.
~ John Piper
God is justified. God is blameless. If God casts David into hell, God will be innocent. This is radical, God-centered repentance.
~ John Piper
Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.
~ John Piper
I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD" (Ezekiel 18:32).
~ John Piper
It's not merely a rule to be followed. It's a miracle to be experienced. A grace to be received. It's a promise to be believed. Do you believe, do you trust, that God sees every wrong done to you, that he knows every hurt, that he assesses motives and circumstances with perfect accuracy, that he is impeccably righteous and takes no bribes, and that he will settle all accounts with perfect justice? This is what it means to be "conscious of God" in the midst of unjust pain.
~ John Piper
Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.
~ John Piper
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
~ John Powell
God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." (Thomas Jefferson)
~ John Price
CBS News reported in 2004 that Saudi Arabia recently beheaded 52 men and one woman for various crimes, including murder, homosexuality, armed robbery, and drug trafficking. The CBS Report revealed that "A condemned convict is brought into the courtyard, hands tied, and forced to bow before an executioner, who swings a huge sword amid cries from onlookers of 'Allahu Akbar!' Arabic for 'God is Great.
~ John Price
A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.
~ John Price
It is not unreasonable to assume that the amount of blood shed will be tied to the numbers of the innocent unborn who were aborted in and allowed by the Daughter of Babylon.
~ John Price
Those who may be troubled by that thought may think about what our country's willing slaughter of fifty five million innocent babies must do to their Creator.
~ John Price
Is the call for Jihad against a particular people a religious right by those calling for it, or is it a human rights violation against the people on which Jihad is declared and waged?" (Dr. John Garang, United Nations, Geneva, March 22, 1999)
~ John Price
It's not necessary to believe America is the Daughter of Babylon to believe that God will keep His word and demand America must make an accounting for the blood of fifty five million babies killed by abortion and that the accounting will be demanded from those who shed/allowed the shedding of the blood. God either means what He said, or He doesn't.
~ John Price
not, let it be always known that the blood of our brothers and sisters….and grandchildren….will be on the hands of America's President. On America itself.
~ John Price
When a nation's land is soaked with innocent blood, the only method of assuaging God's anger is the shedding of the blood of the bloodshedders.
~ John Price