Inspirational Quotes on Justice

“Punishment is justice for the unjust. ”

“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”

“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.”

“Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.”

“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”

“Law, without force, is impotent.”

“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”

“In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.”

“Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful.”

“I feel that if God should smite me now, without hope or offer of mercy, to the lowest hell, I should only have what I justly deserve; and I feel that if I be not punished for my sins, or if there be not some plan found by which my sin can be punished in another, I cannot understand how God can be just at all: how shall he be Judge of all the earth, if he suffer offenses to go unpunished?"”

“God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people.”

“When men talk of a little hell, it is because they think they have only a little sin, and believe in a little Saviour; it is all little together. But when you get a great sense of sin, you want a great Saviour, and fell that, if you do not have Him, you will fall into a great destruction, and suffer a great punishment at the hands of the great God.”

“If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.”

“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.”

“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.”

“God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.”

“There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.”

“A principle is one thing; a maxim or rule is another. A principle requires liberality; a rule says, "one tenth." A principle says, "forgive"; a rule defines "seven times."”

“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”

“Punishment is lame, but it comes.”