Quotes about Justice

the descendants of today's raped and mutilated victims will arise to seek vengeance on the avengers.

it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.

Vengeance is a passion to get even. It is a hot desire to give back as much pain as someone gave you. . . . The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.

Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.

Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.

Allen Yuan had served a term of twenty-two years at hard labor for holding unauthorized church meetings in China.

Calvary broke up the logjam between justice and forgiveness. By accepting onto his innocent self all the severe demands of justice, Jesus broke forever the chain of ungrace.

King clung to nonviolence because he profoundly believed that only a movement based on love could keep the oppressed from becoming a mirror image of their oppressors. He wanted to change the hearts of the white people, yes, but in a way that did not in the process harden the hearts of the blacks he was leading toward freedom. Nonviolence, he believed, 'will save the Negro from seeking to substitute one tyranny for another.

By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out.

if I care to listen, I hear a loud whisper from the gospel that I did not get what I deserved.

God shattered the inexorable law of sin and retribution by invading earth, absorbing the worst we had to offer, crucifixion, and then fashioning from that cruel deed the remedy for the human condition. Calvary broke up the logjam between justice and forgiveness. By accepting onto his innocent self all the severe demands of justice, Jesus broke forever the chain of ungrace.

God (Isa. 59:1—2).