Quotes about Law

The law, in so far as it leads men to put their confidence in it, consigns them necessarily to death.

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.

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.

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.

When the law is separated from Christ, nothing is left but empty forms.

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.

It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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...