93 Quotes About Legalism

Lord, please protect me from Your people.

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other but what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred for the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity's to the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon someone who never lived at all.

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.

Now a theist, he thought he should behave like one, even if it meant him during "the fussy, time-wasting, botheration of it all! the bells, the crowds, the umbrellas, the notices, the bustle, the perpetual arranging and organizing," and, worst of all, the hymns and organ music.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.