"I think God's justice is making wrongs right"
About this Quote
The intent is pastoral and motivational: to steady people who feel cheated by life and to keep them oriented toward hope rather than vengeance. The subtext is a quiet reframing of suffering. If wrongs get made right, then delay isn’t denial; it’s timing. That implicitly discourages cynicism and rage (and, sometimes, public confrontation) by relocating the final accounting to God’s schedule. It also subtly absolves the listener from having to understand why harm happens at all. The “why” becomes less urgent than the “what next”: endure, trust, keep moving.
Context matters: Osteen’s ministry rose in the era of televangelism refined into arena-scale inspiration, braided tightly with American optimism and a therapeutic style of Christianity. In that ecosystem, “justice” can’t sound like doom; it has to sound like uplift. The rhetorical power here is its open-endedness. “Wrongs” can be anything, from betrayal to systemic unfairness, and “right” can mean vindication, healing, success, or peace. That flexibility is the feature - a portable promise that lets listeners plug in their own pain and hear the universe answer back.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Osteen, Joel. (2026, January 17). I think God's justice is making wrongs right. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-gods-justice-is-making-wrongs-right-32073/
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Osteen, Joel. "I think God's justice is making wrongs right." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-gods-justice-is-making-wrongs-right-32073/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I think God's justice is making wrongs right." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-gods-justice-is-making-wrongs-right-32073/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.










