Legalism Quotes
Legalism Quote of the day
When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.
At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.
Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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.
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.
If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.
A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.
We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.
Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.
Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...
Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.
Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior?
Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.
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.
In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.
We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.
I had escaped the snare of certitude that I welcomed so avidly at first and entered, via the name of Jesus, the wide and comprehensive company of Jesus.
The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result.
Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.
Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.
Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.
The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job.
Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.
The knowledge of God’s Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.
Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.
Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.
Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).
People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.
I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.
A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.
According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.