Legalism Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Legalism Morality Secularism The-law
“The clear intent of our law is to enable a man to live in the world and yet hold his faith close to his… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.” — Timothy Brook Copy Share Image
“They all make up new species of crime and bring unhappiness in their train. When I hear a man is religious , I conclude… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“We have been slow to recognize the degree to which religious faith perpetuates man's inhumanity to man.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Some say secularism is in their blood, some say liberty, all the while being the posterboys of persecution.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Laws cannot make men good: that is the work of the Holy Spirit. But laws can prevent men from doing evil.” — Rousas John Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“And let it not be said, as it continually is, that the law, in this sense, would be atheistic, individual, and heartless, and that… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“we can't be secular till there is politics because it is a religion that hates every other religion...” — Ranu Das Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton 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 legalism that… — 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 world and… — 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 by a… — 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 produce morality;… — 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 bondage to… — 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 prayer for… — David Hoyt Copy Share Image
