Quotes about Acquittal
I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
- Job 9:28
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- Matthew 12:37
On their way out, they said to one another, “This man has done nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.”
- Acts 26:31
They examined me and wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.
- Acts 28:18
God is full of love and plenteous in mercy; but He will by no means acquit those who neglect the great salvation He has provided.
- Ellen White
Begin to see that when we say God will "justify" rather than merely "acquit," the action has a reconstituting force — hence the insufficiency of the courtroom metaphor "to acquit." God's righteousness is the same thing as his justice, and his justice is powerfully at work justifying, which does not mean excusing, passing over, or even "forgiving and forgetting," but actively making right that which is wrong.
- Fleming Rutledge