Quotes about Fairness

Here's an idea you can use in your witnessing as people throw out their objections to believing in God. Many will say, 'God isn't fair, and I'm glad. If He were fair, you and I wouldn't be here today. We'd be in hell. What we really need is not God's fairness, but His mercy.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its opponents, but from those who themselves are Christians. That method of procedure would be the only fair method in the case of any movement. [...] Men have abundant opportunity today to learn what can be said against Christianity, and it is only fair that they should also learn something about the thing that is being attacked.