93 Quotes About Legalism

She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long.

(Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Absolute excellence is rarely to be found in any legislation.

Working diligently to straighten up our actions without understanding either what it means to deeply repent or what it is that needs to be scrubbed away by repentance will make us more smug than penetrating. We'll pressure others to do right rather than draw them to want to do right. P195

I had the faith of a sermon, but not the faith of his son. – John Wesley

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.

Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.