God’s great justice - Vaughn J. Featherstone

"I believe in God’s great justice, that for those who are consigned into homes where he knows they will be violated, somehow he will reach down and judge them as if that had never happened. That would only be just. It would only be merciful. And those who have perpetrated great frauds and great deceit and abuse on others may get out of this life without ever having confessed. People may believe that they didn’t do it, and so the perpetrator may escape punishment. We all think that is not fair—the innocent suffer and the guilty do not. No. Justice is “according to the supreme goodness of God,” and by and by, all those who have been guilty will pay the cost. We will either repent or suffer; there isn’t any way around that. I am so grateful for justice."

Vaughn J. Featherstone, A Man After God’s Own Heart, BYU Speeches, 9-12-1995

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/vaughn-j-featherstone/man-gods-heart/