“ You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl… David Wilkerson
“ The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity. Criss Jami
“ Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power. Richard J. Foster
“ Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups. Jonathan Haidt
“ Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior? Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
“ If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Chris… Richard Baxter
“ What are Christians known for? Outsiders think our moralizing, our condemnations, and our attempts to draw boundaries around everything. Even if these standards are accurate and biblical, they seem to… David Kinnaman
“ Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today's speech we would call them gameplans. A person can erect some sort of structure, some typ… Francis A. Schaeffer
“ The knowledge of God’s Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism. John Bevere
“ If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simpl… Criss Jami
“ What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men… Criss Jami
“ I had escaped the snare of certitude that I welcomed so avidly at first and entered, via the name of Jesus, the wide and comprehensive company of Jesus. Eugene H. Peterson
“ The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result. Philip Zaleski
“ Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law. Criss Jami
“ There seems to be something in our human nature that draws us away from a life-giving relationship with Jesus because it feels more comfortable to focus on what to do and not do. That tendency robs us… Chris Hodges
“ God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always f… Criss Jami
