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Quotes About Law

In this time of well-nigh universal apostasy, God calls upon His messengers to proclaim His law in the spirit and power of Elias.
~ Ellen G. White
The same influences are working today through those who try to explain the law of God in such a way as to make it conform to their practices. This class do not attack the law openly, but put forward speculative theories that undermine its principles. They explain it so as to destroy its force.
~ Ellen G. White
Infidels construct their [124] theories from the supposed deductions of sciences, and reject the revealed word of God. They presume to pass sentence upon God's moral government; they despise his law and boast of the sufficiency of human reason. Then, "because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Ecclesiastes 8:11.
~ Ellen G. White
transgression of the law of God, not the neglect of external, man-made ceremonies, that defiles a man.
~ Ellen G. White
While the Saviour's death brought to an end the law of types and shadows, it did not in the least detract from the obligation of the moral law. On the contrary, the very fact that it was necessary for Christ to die in order to atone for the transgression of that law, proves it to be immutable.
~ Ellen G. White
But to abrogate the law would [763] be to immortalize transgression, and place the world under Satan's control. It was because the law was changeless, because man could be saved only through obedience to its precepts, that Jesus was lifted up on the cross.
~ Ellen G. White
The law of God is not made the rule of life. The children, as they make homes of their own, feel under no obligation to teach their children what they themselves have never been taught.
~ Ellen G. White
If the law could be changed, man might have been saved without the sacrifice of Christ; but the fact that it was necessary for Christ to give his life for the fallen race, proves that the law of God will not release the sinner from its claims upon him.
~ Ellen G. White
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Ps. 119:34.
~ Ellen G. White
They had witnessed the proclamation of the law in awful
~ Ellen G. White
I mean, there's like a natural law, like the law of gravity. But you don't go to jail for violating gravity, right?" She snorted. "No, usually you go to the hospital for trying to violate gravity.
~ Ellen Kushner
I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing. But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.
~ Ellen Schreiber
Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
~ Elliot Richardson
Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life
~ Elon Musk
Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
We are commanded to give them the law so that they will be crushed by it and see their need for a Savior. The law won't make them good. It will make them despair of ever being good enough, and in that way it will make them open to the love, sacrifice, and welcome of their Savior, Jesus Christ.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
You won't "bear fruit for God" if you continually think about how you have failed to keep the law. Instead, your heart and mind have to be convinced of the love of your new husband, and you have to delight in him alone. It's only a responsive love for Jesus and all he has done for you personally that will cause godly fruit to be born in your life.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
We will find it increasingly difficult to believe that we've been set free from sin, from the law's power to condemn, and that God's smile is resting upon us if we continually give ourselves over to what we know we should avoid. Sin strips our faith, and it leads to ultimate deadness in our lives.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
We have to remember that in the life of our unregenerate children, the law is given for one reason only: to crush their self-confidence and drive them to Christ.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
The law shows how much I desperately need Christ's perfect record applied to mine.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Send Moses away, with his law, to those who are complacent, proud and obstinate and in these terrors and this anguish lay hold upon Christ, who was crucified and died for our sins.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
We need the gospel of grace and the grace of the gospel. Children can't use the law any more than we can, because they will respond to it the same way we do. They'll ignore it or bend it or obey it outwardly for selfish purposes, but this one thing is certain: they won't obey it from the heart, because they can't. That's why Jesus had to die.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
By this faith instilled from childhood and afterward confirmed by preachings, it has come to pass that no one shuns evils from religion, but only from civil and moral law; thus not because they are sins but because they are damaging.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
An inexorable law strikes and directs societies and civilizations. When, for lack of vitality, the past collapses, clinging to it serves no purpose - and yet it is this attachment to antiquated forms of life, to lost or bad causes, that makes so touching the anathemas of a de Maistre or a Bonald. Everything seems admirable and everything is false in the Utopian vision; everything is execrable and everything seems true in the observations of the reactionaries.
~ Emil M. Cioran