Quotes About Law

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.

Sharia is derived from Arabic, and it means an "oasis." In the desert, man needs the oasis to survive. Sharia is not like any other religion or law, because Sharia is an entire system of life.

The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.

The First Amendment contradicts the First Commandment.