Law Of God Quotes

• For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Friends
  • Prove
  • Contrary

• In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Jesus
  • Representative
  • Law Of God

• It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Learn
  • Bible
  • Strange

• There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

  

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner
  • Hand
  • Mouse
  • Human Law

• There is a reason Christianity is violently opposed in our world while other religions and philosophies are tolerated... Biblical Christianity evokes violent responses from some people, because only in Christianity is there an absolute right and wrong. People hate the Bible and Christianity because of the law of God.

  

  Carmen Domenic Licciardello
  • Bible
  • Christianity
  • Philosophies

• Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government denominated the law of God. To prevent a similar train of evils in this country, the Constitution has wisely withheld from our Government the power of defining the divine law.

  

  Richard Mentor Johnson
  • History
  • Government
  • Victim

• I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them. The wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbid this principle's being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will be in full force.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Church
  • Chance
  • Blood

• The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is one of the laws of that kingdom where our Father dwells, that if a man was found guilty of adultery, he must have his blood shed, and that is near at hand. But now I say, in the name of the Lord, that if this people will sin no more, but faithfully live their religion, their sins will be forgiven them without taking life...

  

  Brigham Young
  • Israel
  • Law Of God
  • Celestial law

• A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Moral
  • Harmony
  • Human Law

• The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Obedience
  • Law Of God

• The Law of God was never a ladder for unsaved people to climb up to heaven. It was always a pattern of life for God’s people who had been saved from judgment by the blood of the Lamb.

  

  Colin S. Smith
  • Judgment
  • Saved
  • Pattern

• Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Knowledge
  • Thoughts
  • Judge

• Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

  

  Augustus Hopkins Strong
  • Sin
  • Conformity
  • Law Of God