Quotes about Justice
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
— John Adams
The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.
— John Adams
When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.
— John Bunyan
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
— John Bunyan
The supreme and only Judge of the universe stands before the tribunal of an earthly judge.
— John Calvin
And so long as we give ourselves to faith in him, with calm and quiet minds, he will not permit the wicked to injure us with impunity.
— John Calvin
The will of God is the rule of righteousness; whatever does not agree with his will is unrighteous; and if unrighteous, it is at the same time deadly.
— John Calvin
Where Christ does not reign men are wolves to men.
— John Calvin
God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely.
— John Calvin
God (says he), who created all things very good, foreknew that evil would arise out of that good; and He also knew that His glorious and omnipotent goodness would be the more highly exalted by His producing good out of evil, than by His not permitting evil to be at all. He ordained the life of angels and of men, that He might first of all make it manifest by that life what free will could do, and then afterwards show what the blessing of His grace and the judgment of His justice could do.
— John Calvin
Those whom the Lord favours not with the direction of his Spirit, he, by a righteous judgement, consigns to the agency of Satan.
— John Calvin
PSALM 112 As the majority of mankind expect to prosper by evil deeds, and as they generally endeavor to enrich themselves by plunder, fraud, and every species of injustice, the prophet enumerates the blessings of God which attend those who worship him in purity, in order that we may know that, in aiming at a life of piety and morality, we shall not lose our reward.
— John Calvin