Quotes about Innocence

Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.

Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;

The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.

The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.