Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Podesta

The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.

John Perry Barlow

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

John Piper

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

John Piper

Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For 'the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.'

Martin Luther

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

Martin Luther

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

Martin Luther

If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.

Martin Luther

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

Martin Luther

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

Martin Luther

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

Martin Luther

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

Martin Luther

A unjust law, is no law at all.

Martin Luther

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Martin Luther

Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.

Martin Luther

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

Martin Luther

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

Martin Luther

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

Martin Luther

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

Mark Steyn

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

Moses Mendelssohn

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

Moses Mendelssohn

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.

P. J. O'Rourke

When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.

Ovid

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

Ovid

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

Paul Newman

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Paul Newman

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Paul Newman

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Paul Broun

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Paul Begala

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Mark Helprin

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

Marion Nestle

There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.