Quotes About Justice And Forgiveness

#1. What's the difference between Chamberlain and Hitler? Chamberlain takes a weekend in the country, Hitler takes a country in a weekend.

Norman Moss

#2. If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

Miroslav Volf

#3. The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

John Stott

#4. I readily give but then I don't forgive easily.

Amit Abraham

#5. 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

#6. Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

Andy Stanley

#7. Anger keeps us down and hinders us from moving forward. Its power is strengthened by our longing for justice.

E'yen A. Gardner

#8. The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

Ravi Zacharias

#9. Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.

Mickey Mantle

#10. A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

Lewis B. Smedes

#11. America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

Ahmed Chalabi

#12. Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?

Whoopi Goldberg

#13. The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

Wendell Berry

#14. 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

#15. Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

E.F. Benson

#16. Community is like peace in that it is a result instead of an action. Peace results from acts of justice and behaviors of love. Community also emerges out of loving behaviors - like compassion and an embrace and forgiveness - and out of acts of justice.

Scot McKnight

#17. Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

Dalai Lama

#18. Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

Nancy Grace

#19. The cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way to do this was to go beyond retributive justice to restorative justice, to move on to forgiveness, because without it there was no future.

Desmond Tutu

#20. Forgiveness does not replace justice.

Pope Benedict XVI

#21. There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.

Pope John Paul II

#22. It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.

Tony Kushner

#23. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

#24. An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

#25. What, after all, is the purpose of a woman's life? The purpose of a woman's life is just the same as the purpose of a man's life: that she may make the best possible contribution to the generation in which she is living.

Louise McKinney

#26. Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

Max Lucado

#27. Procrastination is a hustlers worst enemy.

Lilly Singh

#28. It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

J. Budziszewski

#29. Forgiveness is no substitute for justice.

Pope Benedict XVI

#30. Temper justice with mercy.

John Milton

#31. If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#32. There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

Joel Edgerton

#33. Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

H.M. Tomlinson

#34. In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness.

Garey Gordon

#35. I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

Eugene H. Peterson