Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Interpretation
Justice and power should coexist to ensure fairness and righteousness in society.
This quote emphasizes the importance of aligning justice with power, suggesting that true power should be exercised in a just manner and that justice must have sufficient authority behind it to be effective. It reflects on the interplay between moral righteousness and political or social power, encouraging a balance where neither can exist without the other in a healthy society.
In practice
During a speech about social justice reforms.
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.
We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.
Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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