Quotes about Law
Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.
— Francis Schaeffer
Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.
— DL Moody
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
— Calvin Coolidge
I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
— Victor Hugo
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
— John Quincy Adams
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
— Epictetus
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
— Grover Cleveland
Woe unto them who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!… Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
— Terry James
The old law vindicated itself by the vengeance of the sword, and plucked out eye for eye, and requited injury with punishment; but the new law pointed to clemency, and changed the former savagery of swords and lances into tranquility, and refashioned the former infliction of war upon rivals and foes of the law into the peaceful acts of ploughing and cultivating the earth. And so . . . the observance of the new law and of spiritual circumcision has shone forth in acts of peaceful obedience.
— Tertullian