Justice Quotes

A list of quotable quotes to encourage and equip you in your journey to do Biblical justice.  


Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.  Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor.  Unfortunately it is not fashionable to talk with them.    –Mother Teresa


If a person has grasped the meaning of God’s grace in his heart, he will do justice.  If he does not live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God’s grace, but in his heart he is far from him.  –Tim Keller, Generous Justice


Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it.” 

 “Well, why don’t you ask Him?” 

“Because I’m afraid He would ask me the same question.”   

 -- Anonymous, taken from A Hole in the Gospel by Richard Stearns


Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.  –Dr. Martin Luther King


If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending a night in a closed room with a mosquito.   –African saying


Nobody make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

--Edmund Burke


God’s plan was to keep the gap between the rich and the poor small.   – Scott A. Bessenecker,

The New Friars


A church that lives within its four walls is no church at all.   –Morgan Chilulu, African Pastor


Nothing presents a more compelling and authentic witness of Christian faith in this era than the struggle for justice.  --Gary Haugen, Just Courage


God, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

--David Brainerd

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