Justice God Quotes

#1. But how is it justice, God? Why do I deserve this?" She waited. God declined to reply. How

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

Oscar Romero

#3. You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Johan Huizinga

#4. Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

Plutarch

#5. All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

P.D. James

#6. Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

Benjamin Haydon

#7. 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

#8. The only law that means anything - that can have anything to do with God - is one that is alive and that strives for justice given the circumstances of the present. Otherwise, the law is merely something dead, a weapon in the hands of those with power. Against those with none.

Nafisa Haji

#9. Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God
that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which
it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?

Oscar A. Romero

#11. Sir Storm, I have decided that you are a god of poetic justice."
Baka to Storm

Victoria Danann

#12. Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning of justice called Enlightenment.

Charleston Parker

#13. God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.

Alexandre Dumas

#14. 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

#15. There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

Pierre Bayle

#16. Existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.

Alexander Berkman

#17. 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

#18. God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. It is different with the upper classes. They, following science, want to base justice on reason alone, but not with Christ, as before, and they have already proclaimed that there is no crime, that there is no sin. And that's consistent, for if you have no God what is the meaning of crime?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Trudeau

#22. He knew that, in the eyes of God, all things are interlinked; he knew that justice does indeed spring in great surprise from the acts and consequences of ages long forgotten; and he knew that love is not broken by time.

Mark Helprin

#23. We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy
He is just as glorified by His justice.

R.C. Sproul

#24. 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

#25. The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

Lajos Kossuth

#26. God, you alone are the judge of humankind, yet you call us to work toward justice. Help us make the judgments necessary for faithful living without becoming judgmental, that we may celebrate the mystery by which your justice is your mercy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Shane Claiborne

#27. 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.

#28. Whenever you do judge, the only basis of judgment is not your own perspective or anything else, it's the very character and nature of God and that's why we are to allow Him to exercise His justice, where I personally want to take it upon myself.

Josh McDowell

#29. My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God.

Richard Llewellyn

#30. Some of the most effective segments are interviews with various staff members, including Aila, who works for the center's legal department. She explains the difficulties of rape prosecution, concluding that "only the survivor" can truly define justice. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

#31. For what was the great controversy permitted to continue throughout the ages? Why was it that Satan's existence was not cut short at the outset of his rebellion? It was that the universe might be convinced of God's justice in His dealing with evil; that sin might receive eternal condemnation.

Ellen G. White

#32. God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush

#33. But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessary become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.

Boethius

#34. God told me to look after my people-all are my people.

Smohalla

#35. It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy ...

R.C. Sproul

#36. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

Philip Yancey

#37. If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through Sharia should be predicated on achieving a result that is merciful compassionate.

Mark Durie

#38. Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

Matthew Henry

#39. God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.

John Mark Reynolds

#40. Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Antonia Fraser

#41. At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

Lewis B. Smedes

#42. "Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.

Luther Standing Bear

#43. God has a plan to help bring justice to the world - and his plan is us.

Gary Haugen

#44. I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

Katharine Hepburn

#45. 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

#46. I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.

Marjane Satrapi

#47. We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

Scot McKnight

#48. Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.

Jeremy Taylor

#49. Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

Robinson Jeffers

#50. While watching the current state of America, I have concluded we should welcome the truth no matter how it arrives and justice no matter who or what it affects. When we don't, we become a vessel of mendacity and hypocrisy.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#51. On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that envisions a society in which faith in God is rendered quite unnecessary, since everybody already believes in peace and justice even when everybody does not believe in God.

Stanley Hauerwas

#52. Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence, is forever out of place.

Nehemiah Adams

#53. There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

Thomas Watson

#54. God gives manhood but one clew to success,
utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

Wendell Phillips

#55. 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

#56. You can't understand a God who's all mercy and no justice. That cute, fuzzy God wouldn't last two minutes in the Warrens, would he?

Brent Weeks

#57. None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

Matthew Henry

#58. God is just!' said a carping theologian to me the other day. 'Yes,' I answered, 'and he cannot be pleased that you should call that justice which is injustice, and attribute it to him!

George MacDonald

#59. we can conclude that a professed Christian who is not committed to a life of generosity and justice toward the poor and marginalized is, at the very least, a living contradiction of the Gospel of Christ, the Son of God, whose Father "executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry

Timothy J. Keller

#60. 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

#61. Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

John Owen

#62. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

#63. 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

#64. On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

Aeschylus

#65. There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience,

Gary Haugen

#66. Shed not recklessly the blood of another with thy sword,
Lest the Sword on High falls upon thy neck.

Guru Gobind Singh

#67. 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

#68. We human beings often see only what is before our eyes. But God in His infinite justice searches the heart and our secret motives and manifests accordingly to us His mercy.

Robert K. Massie

#69. If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

Timothy Keller

#70. People will be sentenced in accordance with their deeds ... God's justice is proportional. There is not exactly the same justice for everyone who refuses the mercy of God.

J.P. Moreland

#71. God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

Joni Eareckson Tada

#72. Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.

John Quincy Adams

#73. The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice and mercy God can do to him hereafter. It takes half a lifetime to reach the spot where eternity is always visible, and the crude injustice of the hour shrivels out of sight.

Ellis Peters

#74. Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow
Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

Dante Alighieri

#75. 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

#76. In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#77. The word of the Lord is this: "Just bless those that persecute you and ask for Justice, for the battle does not belong to you but God. God is able to restore your credibility with man even when things seem like that could be impossible. Speak to the storm and release peace."

Julia Loren

#78. It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

M. M. Mangasarian

#79. The ten commandments were those black horses, and the justice of God, like a plowshare, tore my spirit. I was condemned, undone, destroyed, - lost, helpless, hopeless, - I thought hell was before me.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#80. 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

#81. He is the God of all, and His concern is for all.

John Willis Zumwalt

#82. 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

#83. God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.

Pope Benedict XVI

#84. God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church wills it. St. Paul tells us that the Jews are our brothers. They should also be welcomed as friends.

Pope Pius XII

#88. And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?.

William Wilberforce

#89. From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

George Carey

#90. We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's justice, and your insistence on man's moral responsibility. We thank the many Muslim nations who stand with us against terror. Nations that are often victims of terror, themselves.

George W. Bush

#91. Anger tried to boil up higher inside her. She closed her eyes, praying for God's peace. Human wrath was against the will of God and only gave Satan influence over a soul. Honor must leave these evil men to God's justice.

Lyn Cote

#92. My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

Giulio Andreotti

#93. Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.

William S. Burroughs

#94. That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.

Martin Luther

#95. It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.

Saint John Chrysostom

#96. We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.

Allen Johnson

#97. It is a world," he said, "filled with the mysterious joinder of accident!"
"It is a world," replied Abner, "filled with the mysterious justice of God!

Melville Davisson Post

#98. I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.

Roy Moore

#99. Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence ... To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#100. In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

Max Anders