legalism

one primary enemy of the Gospel__egalism__omes in two forms. Some people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by keeping the rules, doing what they__e told, maintaining the standards, and so on (you could call this __ront-door legalism_). Other people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by breaking the rules, doing whatever they want, developing their own autonomous standards, and so on (you could call this __ack-door legalism_).

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

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

The knowledge of God__ Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other but what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred for the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity's to the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon someone who never lived at all.

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

No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.

Now a theist, he thought he should behave like one, even if it meant him during "the fussy, time-wasting, botheration of it all! the bells, the crowds, the umbrellas, the notices, the bustle, the perpetual arranging and organizing," and, worst of all, the hymns and organ music.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

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

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 incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?