Top 100 God Justice Quotes
#1. Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#2. Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
Miguel De Cervantes
#3. Truth, justice ... I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie.
But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could make cakes without sugar. We learned how to fake things, during the war.
Judy Blundell
#4. God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.
Frederick William Robertson
#6. How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#7. God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.
Oscar Romero
#8. Christian feminists can celebrate any sort of feminism that brings more justice and human flourishing to the world, no matter who is bringing it, since we recognize the hand of God in all that is good.
Sarah Bessey
#9. To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
Kane Morgan
#10. What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.
Janet Morris
#11. Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God.
Ted Cruz
#12. God requires two things: 'pure love' and 'true justice'. Everywhere else there is relative justice. Where 'pure love' and 'true justice' exist, there comes the grace of God!
Dada Bhagwan
#13. God does not set his justice aside; he turns it onto himself.
Timothy Keller
#14. Every obstruction of the course of justice,
is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview ... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.
Laurence Sterne
#15. God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
N. T. Wright
#16. The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.
Sophie Swetchine
#18. Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.
Myles Munroe
#19. A great leader acknowledges his or her finitude, and depends fully on the mighty powerful arm of strength of a Great God, to execute equity and justice for all.
Josephine Akhagbeme
#20. To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice is to worship God.
John Dominic Crossan
#21. God is neither just nor unjust. 'No one be hurt in the slightest'; that is God's language. Justice and injustice is people's language.
Dada Bhagwan
#22. God gives manhood but one clew to success,
utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
Wendell Phillips
#23. How can God allow such abominations to flourish unchecked in this world?
The answer came in a question, Ruby.
God, in reply, asked, "How can you?
Lisa Wingate
#24. Justice William Brennan stated that the phrase 'under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional because it no longer has a religious purpose or meaning.
Mathew Staver
#25. Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession.
Saint John Chrysostom
#26. The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confusion of all those that make a jest of his threatenings. Let them not be deceived, God is not mocked.
Matthew Henry
#27. If he is a God of justice, people must see his justice on earth
Sunday Adelaja
#28. Apple is apparently building a large solar energy farm in North Carolina. And if there's any justice, the minute they're done building it, God will introduce a newer, smaller sun that's not compatible with their machinery.
Jimmy Fallon
#29. Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.
Pope Francis
#30. The heart of God's justice is to make sure that the "weak and the orphan" have received their share of God's resources for them to live and thrive. Retributive justice comes in only when that ideal is violated.
John Dominic Crossan
#31. What am I going to say if I end up standing in front of God the Father Almighty and He asks me to explain why I did it? That it was my job? My job?
Stephen King
#32. In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.
Carter Heyward
#33. I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
Joel Osteen
#34. The Constitution under which we live and which has not only blessed us but has become a model for other constitutions, is our God-inspired national safeguard ensuring freedom and liberty, justice and equality before the law.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#35. Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.
William S. Burroughs
#36. They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car, and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast of high ceilings and few horsepower!
John Green
#37. You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
Saint Augustine
#38. It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.
Teresa Of Avila
#39. In that world where jingles replace doxology, God is not free and the people know no justice or compassion.
Walter Brueggemann
#40. I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#41. But don't you hear what I've said?' David cried. 'It's this very vengeance and betrayal that's torn our country apart. Where will it end? If we believe in God, we must believe in a divine justice that in time will restore sanity.'
'I have no time,' said Mireille. 'I will not wait for God.
Katherine Neville
#43. God's judgment is not like man's judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.
Criss Jami
#44. The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin ... He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed.
Billy Graham
#45. We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
Barbara Boxer
#46. A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.
Fulton J. Sheen
#47. To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.
Thomas Merton
#48. When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and hurtfulness of sin; and therefore now I will mourn, not because I am crossed, but because I have deserved this cross, and a worse too."
William Whately
#49. How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even in the justice of God is a mystery indeed.
Claude Montefiore
#50. If karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.
Anthony Liccione
#51. Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.
Baruch Spinoza
#52. It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice.
Elie Wiesel
#54. God may sometimes appear to forget, when his justice is resting; but the time always comes when he remembers ...
Alexandre Dumas
#55. It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.
Joyce Rachelle
#56. Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing.
Andrew Harvey
#58. God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied" (Matthew 5:6 NLT).
Various
#59. Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite transitory and apparent successes, they are reduced to simple machinations destined to dissolution and failure.
Pope John Paul II
#60. Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles
#61. The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
Thomas Paine
#62. We expect God to be an angry father who demands justice, but through Jesus, He gives us love and grace when we don't deserve it.
Kyle Idleman
#63. The denial of truth does not harm the Truth; it only harms that which denies the Truth.
Criss Jami
#64. Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn't quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn't love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful "just deserts," which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals.
John Hersey
#65. In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man.
Henry Highland Garnet
#66. God gets glory for everything, and everyone eventually will glorify God, be it his grace or his justice.
Jefferson Bethke
#67. For God to forgive sinners without the full penalty being paid would contradict His justice and make Him our partner in evil. Christ fully paid that penalty for our sins
but the pardon must be willingly and gladly received. God will not force anyone into heaven.
Dave Hunt
#68. ...Job rails against God, not as a skeptic, not as a stranger to God's justice, but precisely as a believer. It is the very depth of Job's commitment to God's ethical vision that makes his rage so fierce, and that will finally compel an answer from God. (pg. 133)
Ellen F. Davis
#69. Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
Horatio Nelson
#70. She nodded and watched him job up the steps. And good God did he do all kinds of justice to a pair of jeans.
Laura Kaye
#71. I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them that were in hell some thousands of years before, and yet be still resolved to continue their punishment on them to all eternity.
John Owen
#72. When God looks at a sinner who still loves his sin and rejects the mystery of the atonement, justice condemns him to die. When God looks at a sinner who has accepted the blood of the everlasting covenant, justice
A.W. Tozer
#73. Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice ... and justice is the spirit of God.
J.C. Marino
#74. For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?
Simon Critchley
#75. Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.
Kevin Cook
#76. This is exactly why the preservation of the world is not a priority for the true Christian. We are not of this world. Our love is for God, and our hope lies in Him, not the world. So the "social justice" agenda is not the Christian agenda, nor can it ever be for the Church.
Curtis A. Chamberlain
#77. The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.
Allan Boesak
#78. I therefore submit to you that what qualifies a person to be called a man according to God, is the ability of the individual to live by the right standard and values that heaven values. Standards like, justice, judgement, truth and equity.
Sunday Adelaja
#79. God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
Sitting Bull
#80. We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
Theodore Roosevelt
#81. God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#82. The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
Mikhail Bakunin
#83. Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.
Robinson Jeffers
#84. Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.
N. T. Wright
#85. The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.
Miroslav Volf
#86. One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed
H.W. Brands
#87. Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.
Scot McKnight
#88. I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
Brooks Atkinson
#89. You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
Johan Huizinga
#90. It would take a God with equal measures of truth, love, and justice to [give us a metanarrative]. Since I had abandoned that faith in God and considered myself secular, that wasn't a real option for me.
Charles Colson
#91. What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.
Elbert Hubbard
#93. God is hidden in vocations that bear authority. But that puts the pressure on human beings exercise that authority to act with God's justice and grace
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#94. It is clear that Job's friends focused only on God's justice; however, they failed to capture His entire nature. It
Ricardo Graham
#95. Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
William Allen White
#96. The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.
Lajos Kossuth
#97. There must be reserves
except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.
Margaret Deland
#98. 1862 ... although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.
The Catholic Church
#99. The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
John Adams
#100. Its an arrogant conceit of humans to think that they can "give" justice in whatever capacity. Karma would boomerang sooner or later and you are not required to meddle with it. Laws don't ensure justice but ensures fear of punishment in men much like religion instills fear of God.
Nikhil Sharda
