93 Quotes About Legalism

Most martyr stories – sacred and profane – contain an element of superiority. This self-denying hero or heroine is "rewarded," at the very least, by capturing the admiring focus of the narrative, while everyone else recedes into the background.

We live Law to ourselves. Our reason is our Law.

From downstairs his mother called, “Sammy, you’re not going out on the roof, are you?”“No,” he yelled back. I am out, he told himself, making in his mind a fine distinction.

Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist.

When everything is a law, nothing is a law.

An older, Puritan approach to Scripture tended to prevail in the American South, where the Bible was regarded as a set of definite, positive laws

We're very comfortable thinking, good parenting in, good children out.

She was artificially narrowing herself, amputating every humane and tender piece that didn’t fit into a rigid frame.

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; rather, it produces immorality.