Quotes about Justice

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.

Somebody set up us the bomb,' pal," he quoted. "Now it's time to take off every zig for great justice.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

That is Jeremiah's accusation: "You have found a safe place, haven't you! This nice, clean temple. You spend all week out in the world doing what you want to do, taking advantage of others, exploiting the weak, cursing the person who isn't pliable to your plans, and then you repair to this place where everything is in order and protected and right.