Quotes about Justice

And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.

For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”

Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”

And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.

“Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Jesus never says to the poor: 'come find the church', but he says to those of us in the church: 'go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. ECCLESIASTES 12:14