Seeking justice begins with seeking our God who created justice.
Bethany Hoang
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For I, the Eternal, love justice.
I hate stealing and all manner of wrongdoing.
In faithfulness to those who do justice,
I promise they will be rewarded for their work;
and I will establish an everlasting covenant with them.
Isaiah 61:8 The Voice
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For the justice of God is God Himself; and God is the highest Good.
Therefore even as His mercy,
so His justice or judgment must be loved, praised,
and glorified above all things.
Martin Luther
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He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8 NIV
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The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’
but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’,
and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate
the way God’s world WILL be.
N. T. Wright
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I said to myself,
“God will bring into judgment
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time to judge every deed.”
Ecclesiastes 3:17 NIV
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“The living God is a God of justice and mercy
and He will be satisfied with nothing less than
a people in whom his justice and mercy are alive.”
William Sloane Coffin
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Learn to do good;
commit yourselves to seeking justice.
Make right for the world’s most vulnerable—
the oppressed, the orphaned, the widow.
Isaiah 1:17 The Voice
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All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy –
to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.
N. T. Wright