The Law Quotes

The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

Every intention sets energy into motion Whether you are conscious of it or not.

A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance

You are the only one that creates your reality.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It's simple: if you aren't willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is.

Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.