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1 "It is built into us to be able to bring about justice." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

2 "Justice is immortal." The Wisdom of Solomon, Old Testament Apocrypha The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

3 "Love builds on justice or it is not love at all." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

4 "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)

5 "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)

6 "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)

7 "Where does Justice lie? In a community of equalities. A common sky stretches above our heads and covers the entire earth with its immensity, the same night reveals its stars to all without discrimination, the same sun, father of night and begetter of day, shines in the sky for all men equally." Epiphanes, Alexandrian Gnostic teacher, 'On Justice' The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (Stephan A. Hoeller)

8 "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)

9 "Hebrew Scriptures and creation mystics like Hildegard and Eckhart understand injustice as a rupture in the cosmos itself. Justice is NOT human invention – it is built into the universe itself." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

10 "Justice is not mere strength, but harmonious strength – desires and men falling into that order which constitutes intelligence and organization; justice is not the right of the stronger, but the effective harmony of the whole." The Story of Philosophy (Will Durant)

11 "Compassionate healing by way of justice making is the greatest of the gifts we return to creation and the Creator." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

12 "There is something fundamental in the nature of the world whereby an effect is like its cause and will inevitably return to its progenitor….While it is true that bad things sometimes happen to good people, there is more justice in the universe than is commonly admitted, and most people most of the time receive their due." Inner Christianity, A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition (Richard Smoley)

13 "Justice is our pathway to God." Matthew Fox Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

14 "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)

15 "God's justice is so great and penetrating that it reaches deep into the heart of things." Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul (Bl. Sister M. Faustina Kowalska)

16 "Justice preserves the whole universe." Matthew Fox Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

17 "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)

18 "There can be no love without justice. Or as Meister Eckhart puts it, 'love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are.'" Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

19 "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)

20 "Justice is an inner sense that each act brings about consequences that must be faced responsibly." The Spiral Dance, A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (Starhawk (Miriam Simos))

21 "Islam teaches justice and respect for the human being and does not condone oppression." Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning (Winifred Gallagher)

22 "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)

23 "The action, course and quality of earthly events are based upon the operation of a law of Divine justice;…for as Gautama Buddha said: 'Effect follows cause as the wheels of the cart follow the foot of the oxen.'" The Flowering Tree (Gladys V. Jones)

24 "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)

25 "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)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite