Quotes about Justice
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
— John F. Kennedy
God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
— Shane Claiborne
Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.
— Richard Allen
Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
— CS Lewis
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.
— John Knox
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
— Desmond Tutu
There are no small sins against a great God.
— JI Packer
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
— Thomas Paine
The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God's justice.
— RC Sproul
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
— William Wilberforce
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.
— Timothy Keller