Quotes about Laws
Moralism and its stepchild, legalism, reduce the love story of God for his people to the observance of burdensome duties and oppressive laws.
— Brennan Manning
We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
— Stephen Hawking
We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
— Rick Warren
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
— Charles Hodge
Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.
— Ben Stein
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
— Ayn Rand
The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.
— Mark Batterson
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
— Frank Herbert
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
— John Milton
Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.
— John Piper