“It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.” TodayLawReligionChristianityConscienceWoundsPreacherImperativesBandages Book:Today's Gospel: Authentic Or Synthetic? Source: Today's Gospel: Authentic Or Synthetic?
“By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.” LawChoicesIntentionObedienceFormulasPreacherFoundersFundamentalismBetrayedReducingBest Intentions Book:The Telling Source: The Telling
“The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .” SaidShowsLawEvilCuttingExpressionMastersLoversHolyTyrantsPreacherMinimumShow MeHonoredRubbishNecessary Evil Author:Anthony de Mello
“Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.” WorldLawWonderDrinkJudgmentWesternSellingMakersPreacherJuryPirateWestern WorldEnglish Law Author:John Millington Synge