Matthew Henry Quotes

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

Everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody.

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

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

If God should punish men according to what they deserve, he would not leave on the back of the earth so much as a beast.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice can not sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest

Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

God may have mercy, but we won't.

And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy of God.

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, ‘for His mercy endureth forever.