Quotes about Rules

I've already written in this book, rules don't have the power to deliver your children from this condition, but the powerful, transforming grace of God does.

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”

Likewise, a competitor does not receive the crown unless he competes according to the rules.

Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.

They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

It has nothing to do with whether you like God's rules. It's not your kingdom. If you want to operate by your own rules, then you need to go out and create your own world. But as long as you are in God's world, where God has set the rules, you must abide by His rules or you become a rebel against His kingdom government.

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

7 Rules to a Happy Life:1. Be humble2. Don't worry 3. Don't settle for less4. Mind your business5. Work hard 6. Play hard7. Be nice

Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.