We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.
R.C. SproulMots clés justice sin crime gospel
Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.
Erica O'RourkeMots clés pain justice revenge
He's bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated.
In this he was echoing the Patrician's view of crime and punishment. If there was crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.
Mots clés ethics justice funny punishment crime
Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-AttasMots clés justice
Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual gain as against loss; of truth as against falsehood.
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-AttasMots clés justice
To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-AttasMots clés wisdom knowledge justice
It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut
Jonathan SchellMots clés politics justice cruelty
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."
--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris
Mots clés justice ambition dreams determination social-change martin-luther-king-jr
In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?
Thomas HarrisMots clés people justice faith end hard
A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.
Derrick A. BellMots clés innocence injustice justice rules grief function exceptions
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