T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ.”
“The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.”
“The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.”
“The law still says you have to buy insurance. Remember, the mandates are still there. The fines are still there. Everything's still there if it isn't repealed in its present downward spiral, which everybody agrees is happening. Just like everybody agrees the Russians affected the election, everybody agrees that Obamacare is spiraling out of control.”
“The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.”
Source: God's Good News
“The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.”
“The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“The law, the constitution, or the manifesto of political parties is similar to two sets of teeth, like an elephant, one for eating and one for floating. Forget human rights, transparent justice, neutrality, fairness, sincerity, and honesty since they only exist in books, not in practice; it is a bitter reality that the world is a trade chamber, and we live and breathe in it with our interests.”
“THE LAW
The law can be a double-edged sword to those who violate it and a source of hope, comfort, and inspiration to those who seek justice and peace.”
Source: Tomorrow's World Order
“The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.”
Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out, by typical sacrifices and ablutions, the way in which forgiveness was to be sought and obtained. But grace, to relieve us from the condemnation of the one, and truth answerable to the types and shadows of the other, came by Jesus Christ.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c
“The law was given to crush our self-confidence and drive us to Jesus.”
“The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.”
“The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.”
Source: Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins
“The law was too small for the size of her vengeance.”
Source: Vice and Virtue
“The law was written at a time when folks were not that interested in the Fourth Amendment. Or the Fifth Amendment, for that matter, Or, actually, the Sixth." He chortled lightly to himself. "Or the eighth.”
“The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.”
“The Law which governs all life is God.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.”
“The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.”
Source: MAN AND WIFE
“The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.”
Source: Early theological works
“The law's the law, but people are people.”
Source: The Light Between Oceans
“The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.”
“The law, in this country, is dead. The Supreme Court doesn't follow the Constitution, Congress doesn't follow the Constitution. The President doesn't even want to follow the Constitution. And yet we're the ones called radical.”
“The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.”
Source: The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.”
Source: The meaning of treason
“The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind.”
Source: Writings of Josephus: Book 2
“The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.”
“The law, that is what makes men stay honest.”
“The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.”
Source: A treatise on the law of libel and the liberty of the press: showing the origin, use, and abuse of the law of libel
“The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.”
Source: Commentaries on the Laws of England
“The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.”
Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist
“The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc
“The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.”
“The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
given to administer we presently imagine we own.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“The lawmakers possess the authority that commands the obedience of the people.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The lawn drowned, the sky on fire,
the gold light falling backwards through the glass
of every room. I'll give you my heart to make a place
for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger.
Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars
for you? That I would take you there?”
Source: Crush
“The lawn was white with doctors”
“The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.”
Source: Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country
“The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.”
Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
“The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.”
Source: The art of love, and other poems
“The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.”
Source: Principles of Political Economy: Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical and Explanatory Notes and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy
“The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.”
“The laws are stacked for the wealthy.”
“The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.”
Source: An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System
“The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“The laws are with us, and God on our side.”
Source: Essays, moral and political
“The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.”
Source: Aristotle
“The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may delude our short-sighted judgments, never fail to vindicate their supremacy and immutability.”
“The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.”
Source: The Autobiography