Paul Johnson Quotes

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

The injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

After genocide, justice is impossible …. You cannot put all these people who committed these atrocities to death or in prison.

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal.

Real Christians will abstain from violating the rights of others, and therefore will not provoke war.

Every serious moral philosophy, every decent legal system and every ethical organization cares deeply about intention…It’s an elementary aspect of parenting, friendship, courtship and marriage. A hallmark of injustice is indifference to intention. Most of what is cruel, intolerant, stupid and misjudged in life stems from that indifference.

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.