Quotes about Justice
But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.
— Dennis Prager
I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."
— Desmond Tutu
A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."
— Elie Wiesel
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
— George W. Bush
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
— Henry Ward Beecher
But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!
— Herman Melville
Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
— Herman Melville
The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
— JI Packer
The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.
— Jerry Bridges
We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.
— Jerry Bridges
I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.
— Jimmy Carter