Quotes about Law
If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
— Philip Yancey
A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
— Abraham Lincoln
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
— Cicero
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
— Brigham Young
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person
— Pope John Paul II
The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
— Akiva ben Joseph
In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.
— William Tyndale
The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
— Ellen White
The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson