Quotes about Justice

Therefore, we cannot rightly say, "My God is not a God of judgment and anger; my God is a God of love." Such thinking makes it almost impossible to grow in the fear of the Lord. It suggests that sin only saddens God rather than offends him. Both justice and love are expressions of his holiness, and we must know both to learn the fear of the Lord.

If we look only at God's love, we will not need him, and there will be no urgency in the message of the cross. If we focus narrowly on God's justice, we will want to avoid him, and we will live in terror-fear, always feeling guilty and waiting for punishment.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.

This word is composed of jus and dictio, juris dictio or a speaking and pronouncing of the law.