“No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.”
“God’s personal, passionate concern for justice and righteousness was the starting place for His people to build them into every part of their culture. The place we should all live from is “justice and righteousness.” Everything we do, from the way we raise our families to the way we run our businesses to our own relationships with the vulnerable, should reflect “justice and righteousness.”
Source: God Loves Justice: A User-Friendly Guide to Biblical Justice and Righteousness
“Doing “justice and righteousness” means loving the things that lead to life and actively righting the wrongs that keep people from experiencing life as God created it to be.”
Source: God Loves Justice: A User-Friendly Guide to Biblical Justice and Righteousness
“Doing “justice and righteousness” means honoring and expressing God’s intended order and His ways for life. That means doing things that lead to wholeness, freedom, and prosperity for people and His physical world.”
Source: God Loves Justice: A User-Friendly Guide to Biblical Justice and Righteousness
“Justice and righteousness” was never meant to be the work of only one person, or one part of society. It should be the foundation of how everyone stewards their lives, as well as an integral, normal part of all of society. Every aspect of this world needs God’s “justice and righteousness.”
Source: God Loves Justice: A User-Friendly Guide to Biblical Justice and Righteousness
“God wants us to live in the world the way He designed it to be enjoyed. His design has boundaries, yes, but living within these boundaries does not constrict our freedom; it expands it.”
Source: God Loves Justice: A User-Friendly Guide to Biblical Justice and Righteousness
“Tired of toxic behaviors,
My breath dwindles in air.
With every vow of the silken winds,
It develops a thirst for fair.
How long the thought has lingered,
I have never yet questioned my mind.
Tossing & Turning with velocity,
a dream consoles my mind.”
Source: Woebegone Wynds
“The air crackled with anticipation, like the charged atmosphere before a thunderstorm. I could feel the presence of something inevitable, a force both relentless and just, moving towards me with the inevitability of the tide. Yet, amid the tension, there was a strange sense of relief, as if the looming confrontation, once faced, would finally release me from the chains of uncertainty.
I walked through the dimly lit streets, each step a drumbeat in the symphony of fate, my mind a whirl of memories and emotions. Faces from the past flickered in my thoughts, spectral reminders of choices made and paths taken. This journey to justice was not just about the past; it was about claiming the future, about finding peace in truth, no matter how harsh.
As the first drops of rain began to fall, I pulled my coat tighter around me, the cool touch of water mingling with the warmth of resolve. The city lights blurred in the downpour, casting a soft, ethereal glow that seemed to blur the lines between the real and the imagined. I knew that soon, the storm would break, and with it, the truth would be laid bare.”
“You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one.”
Source: Warped Intentions
“Fat Charlie had had no real liking for the police, but until now, he had still managed to cling to a fundamental trust in the natural order of things, a conviction that there was some kind of power--a Victorian might have thought of it as Providence--that ensured that the guilty would be punished while the innocent would be set free. This faith had collapsed in the face of recent events and had been replaced by the suspicion that he would spend the rest of his life pleading his innocence to a variety of implacable judges and tormenters, many of whom would look like Daisy, and that he would in all probability wake up in cell six the next morning to find that he had been transformed into an enormous cockroach. He had definitely been transported to the kind of maleficent universe that transformed people into cockroaches.”
Source: Anansi Boys