Top Legalism Quotes

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.

Perhaps it is true that, by some definitions, Satan is more religious than God. Many of the particularly proud sinners are deceived into thinking that Satan is anti-religious, that he likes seeing peo...

Legalism Definition

(n.) Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.

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

with the police doing all the killing, who do we call when our hero's are the villain

Whether you live or die, whether you're bad or good, whether you're born or not, it's all arbitrary… but what can I say? I don’t like fate or chance, and I don’t always play by the rules, legalist as...

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

When everything is a law, nothing is a law.

I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the "perf...

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

...it is a mistake to reduce every decision about Christian living to a "Heaven-or-Hell issue."For example, some ask if the Bible specifically says a certain action is a "sin" or will send them to "He...

To dream in doctrines, how tidy!

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.

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

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.

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

Legal action is but warfare disguised.

We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be...

Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without...

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