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Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity’s memory.

– Soren Kierkegaard

There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.

– Thomas Brooks

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

– Blaise Pascal

If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.

– Octavius Winslow

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.

– Charles Spurgeon

This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

– Victor Hugo

Civilization needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

– John Buchan

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

– Alexander Pope

The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender. 
– Dante

… get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy that has mocked your shine. And press forward with your purpose – allowing time and space to clear the way for karmic justice on your behalf.
– T.F. Hodge

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

– Demosthenes

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

– Joel Osteen

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

– Thomas Jefferson

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

God’s justice and God’s mercy do not quarrel with each other.

– Aiden Wilson Tozer

What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.

– Elbert Hubbard

I think in the end, God’s justice is redemptive, it’s restorative, it’s about giving life, not taking life.

– Shane Claiborne

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

– Timothy Keller

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

When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God’s glory.

– Timothy Keller

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

– Pope Benedict XVI

God’s justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.

– Frederick William Robertson

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

– Max Anders

We might say God’s wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

– Jerry Bridges

Life is not fair, but one day God’s going to settle the score. He’s going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice – you or God?

– Rick Warren

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

– R. C. Sproul

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

– A. W. Tozer

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

– Blaise Pascal

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

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

– Blaise Pascal

When God balances the scales morally, it is not some standard outside Himself He looks at and then determines whether this is right or wrong. But rather it’s His very nature, it is His very character and nature that is the standard by which He judges.

– Josh McDowell

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

–  Martin Luther King Jr.

 A God all mercy is a God unjust.

– Assorted Authors

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Darla Dee Turlington wrote 34 articles for this publication.

The Rev. Dr. Darla Dee Turlington is an ordained American Baptist pastor who served twenty years at the First Baptist Church of Westfield, NJ, the last nine as Senior Pastor, retiring in June 2010. She has been an adjunct professor at New York City area colleges and currently is on the Governing Board of the Ministers Council of the American Baptist Churches USA, the Board of Visitors of the Divinity School of Wake Forest University, and the Advisory Team of American Baptist Women In Ministry.

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