At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“A legalist is not someone who places divine law above all else. A legalist is someone who places human law above all… — Rob Rienow Copy Share Image
Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from GOD and acceptance by GOD through my obedience to GOD” — C.J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
“Thus the essence of legalism is rooted not merely in our view of law as such but in a distorted view of… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Legalism is adding human rules and regulations to the Bible, and judging others based on these new humanistic rules. Legalism is not… — Rob Rienow Copy Share Image
There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross,… — Geerhardus Vos Copy Share Image
Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
“Legalism, is preparing your own righteousness for heaven, being ignorant of the broad scope of the righteousness of God that requires perfection… — JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA Copy Share Image
Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“(Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of… — Larry Eskridge Copy Share Image
“Legalism is when we try to obtain the result of obedience by our own means and strength. It is self-righteousness, as opposed… — Kelly Minter Copy Share Image
So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
“What are Christians known for? Outsiders think our moralizing, our condemnations, and our attempts to draw boundaries around everything. Even if these… — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Pharisees were the upstanding “conservative evangelical pastors” of their day, strongly convinced of the inerrancy of Scripture and its sufficiency for guidance… — Craig L. Blomberg Copy Share Image
Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Too often, we fall into the trap of preaching the gospel to adults and the law to children: “God wants you to… — Jeremy Walker Copy Share Image
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Based on the stories present here, I believe that the church needs to decide how long it is going to coddle legalism… — Steve Brown Copy Share Image
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can… — William James Copy Share Image
Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Certainly no one should take delight in disputes over minor points. It is undoubtedly true that the regulative principle has occasionally been… — John F. MacArthur Jr Copy Share Image
“We suggest our new brothers and sisters who are somewhat freaky in dress, hair, and general appearance to ask the Lord in… — David Hoyt Copy Share Image
“one primary enemy of the Gospel—legalism—comes in two forms. Some people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by keeping the… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into… — Robert D. Brinsmead Copy Share Image
“Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today's speech we… — Francis August Schaeffer Copy Share Image
![“[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of…” quote by William James](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/db5/william-james-228_breaths_there-are-in-us-possibilities-that-take_2888048.png)
