When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.

Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Where the happy medium cannot be attained, it is better and safer to fall short on this side than on that; that is, too much mercy is better than too much punishment. One can withdraw and reduce too much mercy; but punishment cannot be taken back, especially where it touches body, life, or limb.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

As Pope Benedict XVI said in his address to the United Nations in April 2008, the language of rights is borrowed from the great Christian tradition, but if you cut off those Christian roots, you get all kinds of abuses, each claiming the postmodern high ground of victimhood but only succeeding in debasing the coinage of rights itself.

Have you any right

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is—Never look for justice, but never cease to give

God is more interested in the success of our character than the success of our circumstances.

I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”

“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”