JUSTICE
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"Seek first the Kingdom of God, and His justice – by Invocation – and all other needs, for the support and health of the body, will be added unto you."
The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony
(Basil Valentine)
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"Islam teaches justice and respect for the human being and does not condone oppression."
Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning
(Winifred Gallagher)
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"There is something instinctive in me, and I suspect in every one of us, that reacts with a surge of anger to injustice."
Who Needs God
(Harold Kushner)
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"Justice brings serenity to the conscience, while injustice brings torments and remorse." Hugues De Groot (1583-1645), Dutch philosopher
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"That is truly great power which does not degenerate into mere force but remains inwardly united with the fundamental principles of right and of justice. When we understand this point – namely, that greatness and justice must be indissolubly united – we understand the true meaning of all that happens in heaven and on earth."
I Ching or The Book of Changes
(Richard Wilhelm, translator)
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"Justice, after all, is not an anthropocentric invention any more than is interdependence or compassion. Rather, in a living cosmology, justice as well as interdependence are laws of the universe and therefore laws by which humanity ought to be living."
Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life
(Matthew Fox)
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"There are powerful forces at work which in the end destroy all that is violent and unjust, and consequently it does not pay to build on false principles."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Justice demands that the many have necessities before the few have luxuries." Matthew Fox
Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
(Matthew Fox)
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"Justice, truth, and compassion are the same in essence, and they have to do with whatever God makes in us. Thus truth and justice lie at the heart of the inner person." Matthew Fox
Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
(Matthew Fox)
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"Justice represents the crown of Man's moral development – what might be called 'wisdom become flesh'."
Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition
(Valentin Tomberg)
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"The law of mutual charity perfects the law of justice." Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903), 'Graves de communi', January 18, 1901
Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations
(Frank S Mead, editor)
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"I rejoice in Your truth, my God. For You set a foundation upon the rock, and beams upon a just measuring line." The Thanksgiving Scroll
Dead Sea Scrolls, A New Translation
(Wise/Abegg/Cook, editors)
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"Peace… is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza (1632-1677), 'Theological-Political Treatise'
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition
(John Bartlett)
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"Love cannot be practiced without justice. Love cannot be built on injustice, for injustice is lovelessness. Love is not an alternative to justice….Justice is the beginning of love." Tissa Balasuriya, contemporary Sri Lankan theologian
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"Do justice, that you may live long upon earth. Calm the weeper, do not oppress the widow, do not oust a man from his father's property,….beware of punishing wrongly; do not kill, for it will not profit you." 'The Teaching for Merikare, par. 8 (cs. 2135-2040 bce), a treatise on kingship addressed by a king of Heracleopolis, whose name is lost, to his son and successor Merikare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition
(John Bartlett)
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"He [Buddha] declared that in spite of all the sorrow and misery of the world, the great scheme of which man is a part is a scheme of eternal justice, and that the law under which we are living is a good law, and needs only that we should understand it and adapt ourselves to it."
The Inner Life
(Charles W. Leadbeater)
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"Love and justice march together…You cannot have one without the other." Stanley Booth-Clibborn, contemporary English Anglican bishop
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"The proper objects of the human heart are truth and justice (Thomas Aquinas), and all people have a right to these through healthy education and healthy government."
A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity
(Matthew Fox)
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"Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God." Mechtild of Magdeburg
Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life
(Matthew Fox)
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"We live in a just and benevolent universe worthy of our respect and admiration."
Buddhism and Psychotherapy, The Healing of Heart Doctrine
(Manly P. Hall)
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"The prerequisite of political stability is social justice, for it is in the nature of things that injustice will not endure."
The World's Religions
(Huston Smith)
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"Justice is the necessary foundation of peace and order in human society."
My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone
(Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)
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"In the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, the Golden Rule was a proverb sacred to Maat, the Mother of Justice, 'Do the other good, that he may do good to you.'"
The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
(Barbara G. Walker)
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"No government can stand which is not founded on justice." Aristotle (384-322 bce), Greek philosopher, 'Politics', Bk. VII
The Great Thoughts
(George Seldes, compiler)
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"Justice is esential to the very life and health of the soul."
The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1
(Mortimer J. Adler, editor)
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