Quotes about Law
The law, in so far as it leads men to put their confidence in it, consigns them necessarily to death.
— John Calvin
We should learn that there is no light in the law, or even in the whole Word of God, without Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness.
— John Calvin
What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted.
— John Calvin
The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it.
— John Calvin
When the law is separated from Christ, nothing is left but empty forms.
— John Calvin
God established the law itself as the perpetual rule of his church, to be always in the hands of men, and to be followed by all posterity.
— John Calvin
It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it.
— John Calvin
For unquestionably nothing is more opposed to the law of God than sects, for in it is communicated the truth of God, which is the bond of unity.
— John Calvin
Therefore, men get nothing from the law but condemnation, for in the law God demands his due, but does not confer the power to pay it properly. The
— John Calvin
See, then, the nature of pure and genuine religion. It consists in faith, united with a serious fear of God, comprehending a voluntary reverence, and producing legitimate worship agreeable to the injunctions of the law. And this requires to be the more carefully remarked, because men in general render to God a formal worship, but very few truly reverence him; while great ostentation in ceremonies is universally displayed, but sincerity of heart is rarely to be found.
— John Calvin
Faith acquires what the Law requires; nay, the Law requires, in order that faith may acquire what is thus required; nay, more, God demands of us faith itself, and finds not what he thus demands, until by giving he makes it possible to find it.
— John Calvin
To this it must be added that a sincere love of the law of God is a sure sign of our adoption because it is a work of the Spirit...
— John Calvin