Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just by Tim Keller may be more relevant now than when it was first published in 2010, as our society (both believers and non-believers) is so deeply divided over the very definition of justice. You can read my review of the book here.
Here are 15 more great quotes from the book:
- The most frequently cited Biblical motivation for doing justice is the grace of God in redemption.
- If a person has grasped the meaning of God’s grace in his heart, he will do justice.
- If he (believer) doesn’t care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn’t understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.
- If you look down at the poor and stay aloof from their suffering, you have not really understood or experienced God’s grace.
- When Christians who understand the gospel see a poor person, they realize they are looking into a mirror. Their hearts must go out to him or her without an ounce of superiority or indifference.