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
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
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.” — G.K. Chesterton 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 Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
“Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.” — Oswald Chambers 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
“Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.” — Criss Jami 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 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
“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
You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism… — Sinclair B. Ferguson 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
“Past and Present have different customs; new and old adopt different measures. To try to use the ways of a generous and… — Han Fei 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
“This is so whether the said body of citizens or its prevailing part does this directly of itself, or commits the task… — Marsilius of Padua 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
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
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of God’s Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.” — John Bevere Copy Share Image
There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives… — Walter J Chantry 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
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and… — Anonymous 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
