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.
Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.
A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.
Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the whiteβs front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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