Quotes on law

The law, though it have no power to condemn us, hath power to command us. (Thomas Adams)
The Law by which God rules us is as dear to him as the Gospel by which he saves us. (William Secker)
There are but three ways to fulfil the law: either in my own person here; or to suffer forever in hell; or to believe in and receive another that may do it for me. (Walter Cradock)
The law detects, grace alone conquers sin. (Augustine)
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out. (Dwight Lyman Moody)
The law sends us to the gospel, that we may be justified, and the gospel sends us to the law again to enquire what is our duty, being justified. (Samuel Bolton)
The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy. (Luther)
The law of God is like a mirror: is can show us our faults, but it cannot remove them. (Anon)
Law says, ‘Do’, grace says, ‘Done’. (John Henry Jowett)
The needle of the law must precede the thread of the gospel. (C.H. Spurgeon)
Moral law imposes no heavy bondage. It points to the glorious liberty of love, joy and peace. All its ways are good for a man. (Walter Chantry)
Actually, you cannot break the law of God. If you jump off a skyscraper you do not break the law of gravity, your break your neck. (Vance Havner)
A low view of law leads to legalism in religion; a high view makes man a seeker after grace. (J. Gresham Machen)
The law reflects the nature and character of God just as surely as does the gospel. (Douglas Macmillan)
It is the function of the law to convict men of their sin and drive them to faith in the promise. Consequently even the Old Testament saints were saved by their faith in the promise, and not by their obedience to the law. (Geoffrey B. Wilson)