Quotes about Justice
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.
— Philip Yancey
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.
— Philip Yancey
By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out.
— Philip Yancey
if I care to listen, I hear a loud whisper from the gospel that I did not get what I deserved.
— Philip Yancey
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.
— Philip Yancey
God (Isa. 59:1—2).
— Priscilla Shirer
Ask the Lord to break your heart for what breaks His, and then ask Him to stir in you a sense of active compassion that makes you too uncomfortable to sit by and do nothing.
— Priscilla Shirer
A society can survive bad donkey drivers. But it cannot survive contempt for truth—whether inside or outside a courtroom.
— Dennis Prager
The Hebrew original does not say, 'Do not kill.' It says, 'Do not murder.' Both Hebrew and English have two words for taking a life — one is 'kill' (harag, in Hebrew) and the other is 'murder' (ratzach in Hebrew).
— Dennis Prager
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed" (Genesis 9:6; emphasis added).
— Dennis Prager
The Ten Commandments are there to warn all of us that, with very few exceptions, such as the immediate saving of innocent life, no cause is more important than truth-telling. The Ten Commandments are the greatest list of instructions ever devised for creating a good society. But such a society cannot be created or maintained if it is not based on truth.
— Dennis Prager
When Bad Things Happen to Good People and his lectures.
— Dennis Prager