Quotes about Law

As John Wesley advised his young preachers in his day (when the Bible still shaped the horizon of most people's lives), "Preach the Law until they are convicted, then preach Grace until they are converted.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

all the rules, regulations, and requirements of the law concerning the body are summed up for me in this revealed truth—my body is "the temple of the Holy Spirit.

so much of what drives our responses to our kids is an unannounced set of laws that are more about what we want for ourselves and our lives than what God wants for and from our children. In our allegiance to our law, we end up breaking God's law in our interactions with our children. In this way we are just like our children: people who need to be rescued from ourselves. You

As parents we need to be rescued from our addiction to the law of our comfort, pleasure, success, and control. It's not our children's sin that is in the way of good parenting; it's our tendency to make parenting about our little kingdom of wants, needs, and desires, and our tendency to want our children to serve the purposes of our kingdom rather than submit to the purposes of God's kingdom.

De wet is er niet alleen goed in om ons gedrag bloot te leggen, maar ook ons hart.

God's law is meant to address and expose the heart because sin is always a matter of the heart before it is an action of the body.

Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.

We bask in God's grace but throw the law at others. We're

The law of love is the ultimate law because it is the negation of law; it is absolute because it concerns everything concrete. The paradox of final revelation, overcoming the conflict between absolutism and relativism, is love.

The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then

There is no higher "law" to be obeyed than the law of love. That, at the end of the day, is what it means to follow Jesus.