Quotes about Justice

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption. . . . Galatians 6:7—

Church is a gathering of nobodies to worship the only real Somebody: Christ, our Head. The King of creation, raised from the dead, seated with the Father, Commander of heaven, exercising complete authority over all time and space, perfect in His justice, infinite in His mercy, holy in His perfection, the only perfect Somebody who died for nobodies like you and me.

God has never sat around biting his nails, wondering what Hitler and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein were going to do.

Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour , March 9, 1998]

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Don't let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.

People who die bad don't stay in the ground.

Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so cruel, that unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, or rights, or the goodwill of others, only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination.

What's fair ain't necessarily right

You know as well as I do that people who die bad don't stay in the ground.