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1		"Do justice, that you may live long upon earth. Calm the weeper, do not oppress the widow, do not oust a man from his father's property,….beware of punishing wrongly; do not kill, for it will not profit you." 'The Teaching for Merikare, par. 8 (cs. 2135-2040 bce), a treatise on kingship addressed by a king of Heracleopolis, whose name is lost, to his son and successor Merikare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

2		"Compassion is the fulfillment of justice, not its abolition." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica', I, q. 21, a. 3, ad 2 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

3		"The proper objects of the human heart are truth and justice (Thomas Aquinas), and all people have a right to these through healthy education and healthy government." A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity (Matthew Fox)

4		"In actual fact, the justice of God is the truth of God at work. It is the divine Architect's measuring mind tracing in creative lines the pattern of all that is….This divine mortising of the universe into a whole with order is the creative justice of God." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

5		"The justice of God sees – in that is everything." Honore deBalzac, 'Louis Lambert' Cosmic Consciousness (Richard M Bucke)

6		"The law of mutual charity perfects the law of justice." Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903), 'Graves de communi', January 18, 1901 Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

7		"Love cannot be practiced without justice. Love cannot be built on injustice, for injustice is lovelessness. Love is not an alternative to justice….Justice is the beginning of love." Tissa Balasuriya, contemporary Sri Lankan theologian The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

8		"Justice is not a human invention. It has been integral to creation from the very first second of the fireball when order (not chaos) emerged and when harmony and balance emerged from the struggle and the destruction of the evolving creation. This quest for justice has been integral to creation's unfolding ever since. It is evident even in our bodies and in our psyche's search for balance." The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

9		"The ultimate measure of justice in all human institutions and acts, as well as in the characters of men, is not itself a man-made standard, but rather a natural principle of justice, holding for all men at all times everywhere." The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1 (Mortimer J. Adler, editor)

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

11		"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)

12		"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)

13		"The esoteric [Tibetan] teaching coincides with that of the ancient Greek and Egyptian mystics: 'As below, so above'; which implies that there is one harmonious law governing with unwavering and impartial justice the visible as well as the invisible operations of nature." W. Y. Evans-Wentz, introduction Tibetan Book of the Dead (W Y Evans-Wentz, translator)

14		"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)

15		"Wise is he who holds to the golden mid-point, who believes in the eternal justice of things." The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)

16		"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)

17		"Love and justice march together…You cannot have one without the other." Stanley Booth-Clibborn, contemporary English Anglican bishop The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

18		"Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God." Mechtild of Magdeburg Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

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

20		"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)

21		"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)

22		"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)

23		"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)

24		"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)

25		"Harmony in the physical and mathematical world of sense, is justice in the spiritual one." Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky)