The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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John Rawls Quotes
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place.
Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.
John Rawls (1921-2002) is an American political philosopher. Some of his writings emphasize the concept of “justice as fairness.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
From Amos 5:23-24: “Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”
Competitive Spirit
So much of life keeps score
From elections to sports
Competitive spirit
Churns in daily reports
Life’s clashing resistance
Much at too high a cost
All want to be winners
Loving brothers, now lost
Division without love
Life without sportsmanship
Forgetting our manners
People losing their grip
Imagine Super Bowl
Unresolved final score
Fans calling for justice
Final outcome called for
Pushing aside tension
Leaving muckraker’s trough
Muting all rhetoric
Turning life’s scoreboard off
Courage Stands (Haiku Series #121)
Hands
As people of God
Graced to be Christ’s hands of change—
World’s transformation
Echoes
Followers of God
Called as voices for justice—
Filled with Grace of Christ
Feet
Our Creator calls
Walking in Jesus’ footsteps—
Lives for renewal
Father’s Firm Hand
From Psalm 94:1-2: “O Lord, you God of vengeance, you God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, O judge of the earth; give to the proud what they deserve!”
Holy, perfect Father
Bringing justice for all
Earth’s one, ultimate Judge
Love covers, like rainfall
Truest God of vengeance
Providing blessed Grace
Living high in Heaven
Father’s firm hand, in place
Lives thirst for discipline
Teaching knowledge, His Word
Knowing our hollow thoughts
Empty breath, minds stand blurred
Over the roaring seas
On highest mountaintops
Across fertile valleys
Earth’s Judge shall never stop
Gracious to believers
God’s goodness and kindness
Through our faith, accept Grace
Love overcomes blindness
Judging with righteousness
God’s law rules over all
Vanquishing the wicked
Justice builds righteous walls
From Psalm 98:8-9: “Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing together for joy at the presence of the Lord, for He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.”
John Rawls Quotes
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.
Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.
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