Quotes About Law

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

The Law which governs all life is God.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

Following the Leslie Charteris novels and the film portrayals by suave George Sanders, the radio Saint righted wrongs and aided victims of crime when the law was rendered powerless by restrictive procedure. The Saint simply broke the law, if the result justified it.

Law-abiding citizens and people with good political connections stand their ground.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Everything in Scripture has the force of law. What it teaches we are to believe; what it commands, we are to do. We should take its wisdom to heart, imitate its heroes, laugh at its jokes, trust its promises, and sing its songs.

To think of the Ten Commandments as something separate from the 'words of the covenant' written on the tablets of stone is to think non-biblically. Nowhere in the Bible are we instructed to think of the Ten Commandments in terms of the eternal, unchanging moral law.

The foundation of the old covenant was based on law and said "do or die." The new covenant is based on grace and says, "It is finished, only believe." That is not a better version of the same covenant; that is a radical and new covenant based on different and better promises.

1) Did God specifically promise to make a new covenant, or did he promise a new administration of the same covenant? (2) Was the Old Covenant made with Israel at Sinai or was it made with Adam in the Garden? What does Scripture say? The great difference between the nation of Israel and the Gentiles was that of 'having the law' as a covenant and the gospel as a promise, as opposed to 'not having the law' and being without a covenant or hope

Our Lord never says, or in any way implies, that Moses was wrong. He does contrast his teaching with that of Moses and clearly claims the law of his kingdom of grace is a higher law than that given to Moses for Israel.

The laws that God gave to hard-hearted sinners under the old covenant in order to convict those sinners of their need of grace are not of the same nature as the laws given to regenerate saints with new hearts under the new covenant. The laws, or rules, that govern a child of God living under grace will always make higher demands than the law or rules that govern hard

The laws that God gave to hard-hearted sinners under the old covenant in order to convict those sinners of their need of grace are not of the same nature as the laws given to regenerate saints with new hearts under the new covenant. The laws, or rules, that govern a child of God living under grace will always make higher demands than the law or rules that govern hard-hearted sinners living under a covenant of law.8

Every attempt to produce holy living by applying Moses to the conscience is an attempt to give Moses a job God never intended him to have. It also denies the true bridegroom his full rights as the new husband.

The sabbath was the sign of the covenant that God made with Israel and therefore it had to be part of the covenant document of which it was the sign.

I being now upright without it, and that too with that righteousness, with which this law speaks well of and approveth; I may not, will not, cannot, dare not, make it my Saviour and Judge, nor suffer it to set up its government in my conscience; for so doing I fall from grace, and Christ doth profit me nothing.22

They are never called or treated as 'the unchanging moral law of God' either here in the Exodus passage that introduces them or anywhere else in Scripture. To call the Ten Commandments the 'moral law of God' is to use a purely theological term2 that is without any textual support from either this introductory passage or any other passage in Scripture.

The First Law of Systems-Survival: A SYSTEM THAT IGNORES FEEDBACK HAS ALREADY BEGUN THE PROCESS OF TERMINAL INSTABILITY.