A
good cause will fear no judge.
--LATIN PROVERB
Corn can’t expect justice from a court composed of chickens.
--AFRICAN PROVERB
If we do justice to our brother even though we may not like him,
we will come to love him; but if we do injustice to him because
we do not love him, we will come to hate him.
--JOHN RUSKIN (1819–1900)
Justice is nothing other than love working out its problems.
JOSEPH FLETCHER
Justice to be justice must be much more than justice. Love is
the law of our condition, without which we can no more render
justice than a man can keep a straight line, walking in the dark.
--GEORGE MACDONALD (1824–1905)
Man’s
capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s
inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
--REINHOLD NIEBUHR (1892–1971)
Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the
strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble
and loving spirit. The transformed nonconformist, moreover, never
yields to the passive sort of patience which is an excuse to do
nothing.
--MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929–1968)
|
|
A man
who is always on the cross, just piece after piece, cannot be happy
in that process. But when that man takes his place on the cross
with Jesus Christ once and for all, and commends his spirit to God,
lets go of everything and ceases to defend himself—sure, he
has died, but there is a resurrection that follows!
--A. W. TOZER (1897–1963)
God
gives us the cross, and then the cross gives us God.
--MADAME JEANNE MARIE DE LA MOTHE GUYON (1648–1717)
If
the cross suited us, it would no longer be a cross, and if we refuse
those that hurt us, we will refuse all crosses. The cross which
God sends us must of necessity always be humiliating, painful, paralyzing,
difficult. The cross is precisely what hurts us in that place where
we are most disarmed and vulnerable.
--LOUIS EVELY (1910– )
CROSS
in the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and was used
for the crucifixion of Christ itself (Ephes. 2:16; Hebrews 12:2;
1 Cor. 1:17-18; Galatians 5:11; Galatians 6:12, 14; Phil. 3:18).
The word is also used to denote any severe affliction or trial (Matthew
10:38; Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Mark 10:21).
The forms in which the cross is represented are these:
1. The crux simplex (I), a “single piece without transom.”
2. The crux decussata (X), or St. Andrew's cross.
3. The crux commissa (T), or St. Anthony's cross.
4. The crux immissa (t), or Latin cross, which was the kind of cross
on which Jesus died.
|
