Quotes about Law
So today those who scorn to go to school to Christ and to train themselves in listening to the Word, really mock God himself and judge both the law and the prophets — and even the gospel itself — as without value.
— John Calvin
What then is the Word of God which gives us life; what but the law, the prophets, and the gospel?
— John Calvin
Any man then who would profit by the Scriptures, must hold first of all and firmly that the teaching of the law and the prophets came to us not by the will of man, but as dictated by the Holy Spirit.
— John Calvin
Rom. 7:10, that the law is turned into a source of ruin for us, not because it is evil but because we are wicked.
— John Calvin
The law, in so far as it leads men to put their confidence in it, consigns them necessarily to death.
— John Calvin
We should learn that there is no light in the law, or even in the whole Word of God, without Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness.
— John Calvin
What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted.
— John Calvin
The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it.
— John Calvin
When the law is separated from Christ, nothing is left but empty forms.
— John Calvin
God established the law itself as the perpetual rule of his church, to be always in the hands of men, and to be followed by all posterity.
— John Calvin
It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it.
— John Calvin
For unquestionably nothing is more opposed to the law of God than sects, for in it is communicated the truth of God, which is the bond of unity.
— John Calvin