“The sword of justice hath less power over human hearts than the sceptre of mercy.”
Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing.
—Laozi
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
—Thomas Aquinas
Pardoning mercy is God’s free, gracious acceptance of a sinner upon satisfaction made to his justice in the blood of Jesus
—John Owen
In Christ, justice and mercy embrace, suffering is the road to glory, the cross points to a crown, and the timber of the cross becomes the tree of life.
—Herman Bavinck
When speaking of divine perfection, we signify that God is just and true and loving, the author of order, not disorder, of good, not evil.
We signify that he is justice, that he is truth, that he is love, that he is order, that he is the very progress of.
—Plato
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice.
This is the only education which deserves the name.
—Plato
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
—Aristotle
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
—Plato
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
—Plato
Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
—Socrates
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
—Cicero
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
—Blaise Pascal
“How gloriously has Christ rolled away the great load of human sin, adequately recompensed the claims of divine justice, and magnified the law, and made it honourable!”
– Charles Spurgeon
Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.
—Sun Tzu
We by our sin have exposed ourselves to wrath, to a vindictive justice; but God has done very great things that we might be saved from that wrath
—Jonathan Edwards
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
The soul sees in Christ a way to peace with God, and a way by which the law may be answered, and justice satisfied, and yet he may escape; a wonderful way indeed, but yet a certain and a glorious one.
—Jonathan Edwards
If anything in the world could have been a temptation to God to dispense with justice, it would have been the infinite dearness of his own Son. But when he took our sins, God poured out his wrath upon him.
—Jonathan Edwards
Many men & women who are troubled for their sin think God will be satisfied by their mourning. But mourning your heart out for 1,000 years will never satisfy the justice of God. Mourning will come to nothing, unless it leads
you to Jesus Christ for satisfaction of God’s justice.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Many men & women who are troubled for their sin think God will be satisfied by their mourning. But mourning your heart out for 1,000 years will never satisfy the justice of God. Mourning will come to nothing, unless it leads
you to Jesus Christ for satisfaction of God’s justice.
—Jeremiah Burroughs