Top 100 Justice Mercy Quotes
#1. And what could be more frightening than a child with total power? A spear and sword are terrible, God knows. That is why the knight who carries them is first taught pity, justice, mercy, and only last
force.
John Steinbeck
#2. Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty
these are Christian values.
Charles J. Chaput
#4. Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
Mason Cooley
#5. 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
#6. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
Terry Pratchett
#7. I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
John Green
#8. Thankfully, God has shown us that hope, in its million different forms, always springs from three primary colors: justice, mercy, and love.
Richard Dahlstrom
#9. justifies the cost of wounded lives and shattered people. Justice, mercy, integrity, and love are compromised for success. Decisions are based on money, numbers, and results.
John Bevere
#10. The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#11. For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.
Steven J. Lawson
#12. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney
#13. 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
#14. His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, 'for His mercy endureth forever.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#15. 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
#16. On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest.
Joseph Conrad
#17. Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
Wendell Berry
#18. Mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.
Dean Koontz
#19. Jesus is not only the Son of God, but He is God Himself. Having all power in His hands, He laid down His life for people who deserved God's justice, not His mercy.
Monica Johnson
#20. Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
Henry Fielding
#21. justice hath no meaning lest it be tempered with mercy."26
William Irwin
#22. In the beauty of the world, we are to see God's existence. In the brokenness of the world, we are to see God's justice. As we do, we run back to the place where we see God's mercy: the cross.
Timothy Keller
#23. I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.
Ross Macdonald
#24. High justice would in no way be debased
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy.
Dante Alighieri
#25. Love is magic in our veins. Love the hand of the punisher stays. Love heals what justice flays. Love defends and mercy reigns.
Evangeline Denmark
#26. Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.
John Terry
#27. Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.
Andy Andrews
#28. And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am
Death's justice.
R.L. LaFevers
#29. Surprisingly, I felt no anger towards him. He was just Man. Man in his basic, rudimentary state, easily moved by powerful emotions like love, lust, anger, greed, and fear, but totally dumb to the finer, acquired emotions like pity, mercy, humour, and justice.
Helon Habila
#30. I readily give but then I don't forgive easily.
Amit Abraham
#31. Lynx stood and raced to the camp. "Attend to our injured!" She unsheathed a machete and made for Hare's killer.
Heron grabbed her wrist. "Wait. He's still conscious."
"Then he will feel my machete," she replied, voice like ice.
Gwynn White
#32. Unless you're the lead dog the view never changes ...
mercy out does justice every time:
always find your way back home/
Bob Mitchley
#33. Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.
Bryan Stevenson
#35. The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
Ken MacLeod
#36. When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.
Billy Hughes
#37. Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
Gary Bauer
#38. You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required
and content that He should indeed require no more of you
than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.
John Ruskin
#39. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
#40. Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.
Lord Hailsham
#41. Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
Andy Stanley
#42. It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.
Peter Kreeft
#43. If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the world with friendly look, one does good friends.
Philip Gibbs
#44. As he himself said, I will prove it to you, gentlemen, and i will prove it in two ways. First in the blinding clarity of the facts, and second, in the dim light cast by the mind of his criminal soul.
Albert Camus
#45. Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
Miguel De Cervantes
#46. Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#47. 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
#48. But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy
Leo Tolstoy
#49. Compassion is not a sometime action; it's an every time passion! You can't be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week ... That's first class hypocrisy!
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice
Rick Riordan
#51. 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
#52. Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.
Billy Graham
#53. He was the devil in a Sunday hat; he dressed and acted like a civil man, but inside he was just hatred and filth. Then, I guess after what I was planning to do to save a life, I wasn't too dissimilar to him.
Mercy Cortez
#54. The idea that the Christian god is just, is directly contradicted by the idea that the Christian god is merciful. Perfect justice and any mercy are necessarily directly in contradiction, because mercy is a suspension of justice.
Matt Dillahunty
#55. So how does God affect justice in this life/economy/reality? A lightening bolt, an angel of death, or by the hand of a human being?"
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#56. 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
#57. One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.
Adrian Rogers
#58. We need more hope. We need more mercy. We need more justice.
Bryan Stevenson
#59. A king who is renowned for mercy," said the Arobern, with heavy irony, "must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice.
Rachel Neumeier
#60. Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.
Shannon L. Alder
#61. God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
John Calvin
#62. Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.
Sheri S. Tepper
#63. Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
Thomas Aquinas
#64. We should not forget the principles of Christian mercy and justice: to welcome back those who are repentant and need our assistance, while encouraging the faithful to endure to the end.
Mark Skousen
#65. The wheels of [God's] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move.
Billy Graham
#66. It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy ...
R.C. Sproul
#68. Gascoigne believed that justice ought to be a synonym for mercy, not an alternative.
Eleanor Catton
#69. 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
#70. Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know that he counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#71. There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.
Bhaskaryya Deka
#72. If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.
Robert Fulghum
#73. By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
R.C. Sproul
#74. Thinking about justice and mercy and grace, Frederick Douglass said, "I prayed for twenty years. Nothing happened until I got off my knees and started marching with my feet." And that's the role of the church. We already prayed about it. Now let's take action on it. You
Sybrina Fulton
#75. But that was just a shadow of what would come to pass:
When one appointed season Christ came to die at last.
And in the name of justice they flogged him like a thief,
But willing was the victim of human disbelief.
Joyce Rachelle
#76. I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.
Diana Gabaldon
#77. A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.
Lewis B. Smedes
#78. It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire
#79. [The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself
mercy ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. - Thomas Paine
Zig Ziglar
#81. Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#82. The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
Wendell Berry
#83. Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
Maria Weston Chapman
#84. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.
Ayn Rand
#85. Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.
Thomas Aquinas
#86. Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
Ellen G. White
#87. It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
Benjamin Haydon
#88. six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice
Gena Showalter
#89. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine
#90. His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is His love, doing justice to its own exigencies, and renewing the gift which we had failed to accept.
Thomas Merton
#91. The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.
Catherynne M Valente
#92. One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.
Simone Weil
#93. I want to understand about change--I don't just want to be at the mercy of it. I feel like I'm waking up inside. I want to know about history. I have all this new information about people like me down through the ages, but I don't know anything about the ages.
Leslie Feinberg
#95. 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
#96. Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.
Robinson Jeffers
#97. Justice shall be mixed with mercy. You shall not always be an Ass.
C.S. Lewis
#99. Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.
Marisha Pessl
#100. It's been said that justice is getting what you deserve. And mercy is not getting the bad you deserve. Grace is getting a good thing, even when you don't deserve it.
Natashia Deon
