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Jesus does what legalism can never do: he gives us a new heart and a new spirit. Without — Tim Chester

Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior? — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

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

Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers. — Tullian Tchividjian

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power. — Richard J. Foster

Lord, please protect me from Your people. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism. — Richard Perle

Legalism is man-centered; discipline is God-centered. — Barbara Hughes

The road itself tells us far more than signs do. — Tom Vanderbilt

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting. — Beth Moore

Security is by far the city's predominant business. — Ron Suskind

We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their God simply because they love their God. — Criss Jami

No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist. — G.K. Chesterton

People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor. — T.H. White

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. — Philip Yancey

Ecclesiastes 7:20 clearly sounds the futility of legalism: There is not a righteous man on earth / who does what is right and never sins. — Beth Moore

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it legalism. — Leonard Ravenhill

Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield. — Criss Jami

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

A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace. — John Gresham Machen

Opportunities have often felt like obligations to me. — Kevin DeYoung

Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from GOD and acceptance by GOD through my obedience to GOD — C.J. Mahaney

Men promise freedom while establishing laws; God promises laws while establishing freedom. — Criss Jami

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law ... — Martin Luther

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

A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt. — Matt Chandler

Religions find lasting utility in terms of prescription or parameter, rules for the conduct of human affairs. — Ron Suskind

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 — Mark A. Noll

We're very comfortable thinking, good parenting in, good children out. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day. — Geraldine Brooks

A legalist is not someone who places divine law above all else. A legalist is someone who places human law above all else. — Rob Rienow

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

Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong. — Kevin DeYoung

Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons). — C.S. Lewis

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue. — Jen Pollock Michel

We live Law to ourselves. Our reason is our Law. — John Milton

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

Moralism and its stepchild, legalism, reduce the love story of God for his people to the observance of burdensome duties and oppressive laws. — Brennan Manning

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works. — John H. Gerstner

The knowledge of God's Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism. — John Bevere

I can turn every "is" into "ought ". — Kevin DeYoung

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us. — Tullian Tchividjian

If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — G.K. Chesterton

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God. — David Wilkerson

He fetishized limits. — Rick Perlstein

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

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed. — Madeleine L'Engle

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day. — Brian D. McLaren

You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics — Jeri Massi

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies. — C.S. Lewis

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder. — R.C. Sproul

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

Law without reason is criminal. — Criss Jami

Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore. — Geerhardus Vos

The secret impetus behind legalism is its competitiveness. The point is not just to win: it's to beat everyone else. — Mark Buchanan

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law. — Criss Jami

Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering. — Gene Edwards

Absolute excellence is rarely to be found in any legislation. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Legalism always breeds compliance over purpose. — Ravi Zacharias

To dream in doctrines, how tidy! — John Le Carre

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God. — Timothy Keller

These considerations give us some clues as to why legalism and antinomianism are, in fact, nonidentical twins that emerge from the same womb. Eve — Sinclair B. Ferguson