Quotes about Law
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
— CS Lewis
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
— William Law
Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature
— Wayne Grudem
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.
— Malcolm X
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
— Cicero
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
— Cicero
By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.
— Thomas Jefferson
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.
— Thomas Jefferson
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.
— John F. Kennedy
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
— Catherine Booth