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Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.
— Maude Royden
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
— John Quincy Adams
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.
— Shirley Chisholm
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
— Thomas Jefferson
Slavery] will yield in time to temperate & steady pursuit, to the enlargement of the human mind, and its advancement in science. We are not in a world ungoverned by the laws and the power of a superior agent, our efforts are in his hand, and directed by it; and he will give them their effect in his own time.
— Thomas Jefferson
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.
— Thomas Merton
One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can't follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule.
— Kathleen Norris
Believe it or not, the secularists have even succeeded in passing laws that forbid the freedom of teaching about the global Flood in the state classroom or by state-sponsored places for fear of getting fired and sued! Sounds ludicrous, but this has occurred!
— Ken Ham
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
— CS Lewis
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.
— Samuel Johnson
A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.
— James Montgomery Boice