Quotes about Justice

The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.