If anything is a mystery to you and is coming between you and God, never look for the explanation in your mind, but look for it in your spirit, your true inner nature, that is where the problem is. Once your spiritual nature is willing to submit to the life of Christ, your understanding will come to the place where there is no distance between the Father and you, His child, because the Lord has made you one. Skepticism can never be thoroughly applied; else life would come to a standstill: something we must believe in and do, and whatever that something may be called, it is virtually our own judgment, even when it seems like the most slavish reliance on another. It is half the battle to fight a just cause.  Human depravity may oftener justify those who judge harshly than human rectitude can those who judge favorably. Many people speak about justice, but I do not think they know what it means. I think it is just a word they hear and it sounds good to them. Justice is good behavior or fair treatment. Justice means to express fairness, fair play, fair mindedness, equity, evenhandedness, impartiality, objective, neutrality, honesty, righteousness, morals, and morality.

Therefore, justice starts with each and every one of us and how we treat others. In the cold courts of justice the dull head demands oaths, and holy writ proofs; but in the warm halls of the heart one single, untestified memory’s spark shall suffice to enkindle such a blaze of evidence, that all the corners of conviction are as suddenly lighted up as a midnight city by a burning building, which was every side whirls its reddened brands. If people understood justice they would be the first to proclaim, that when two are tied together, the one who does the other serious injury is more naturally excused than the one who calls up the grotesque to extinguish both. Seldom do they prove patient martyrs who are punished unjustly. Strong minds perceive that justice is the highest of the moral attributes; mercy is only the favorite of the weak ones. Calling sternness justice, one extolled that for strength of mind which was only callous insensibility. Justice does not the less exist, because her laws are neglected. A sense of what she commands lives in our hearts; and when we fail to obey that sense, it is to weakness, not to virtue, that we yield. When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.  

Half justice is injustice. I may not be unjust to myself and certainly not have the right to be unjust to anybody. Who does most injustice, a prodigal man or a saving man? The one saves his own money; the other spends other people’s.  If the World is unjust, or rash, in one individual’s case, why may it not be so in another’s? Nothing can be polite that is not just. Is not the man guilty of a high degree of injustice who is more apt to give contradiction than able to bear it? Justice is a severe thing. To do justice in another’s case against oneself is making at least a second merit for oneself. Mercy to a criminal may be gross injustice to the community. Though we cannot overcome, our cause is just. Justice teacheth us not to love punishment, but to fly to it for necessity. Nothing, to the noble heart, is so afflicting as the consciousness of having done injustice. A just medium prevents all conclusions. Justice pays all the debts of yesterday, and nothing else will. A man must be an idiot or else an angel who, after the age of forty, shall attempt to be just to his neighbors. Justice may be purchased too dearly. The Spirit of God witnesses to the redemption of our Lord and to nothing else. The Spirit witnesses only to His own nature and to the work of redemption, never to our reason, it is no wonder that we are in darkness and uncertainty. Throw it all overboard, trust in Him, and He will give you the witness of the Spirit.