Quotes about Law
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
— Aristotle
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
— Charles Spurgeon
I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.
— Charles Spurgeon
There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.
— Charles Spurgeon
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
— Euripides
No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.
— James Madison
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
— Martin Luther
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
— Herman Melville
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
— James Madison
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
— Booker T. Washington
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
— Thomas Jefferson