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“I detest legalism. I certainly don't want to try to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded First Covenant restrictions on Christians. But at the same time, every New Testament example of giving goes far beyond the tithe. However, none falls short of it.”

Giving Trying Christian Fall Wine New Testament Tithe Legalism

Author:Randy Alcorn

“Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.”

Country Action Law Passion Literature Century Dangerous Silent Lawyer Compare Strongest Anarchy Legalism

Author:Marquis de Sade

“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.”

Men Done Energy Hours Differences Violence Grew Degrees Grew Up Tyranny Consumed One Hour Depriving Legalism Wording Convoluted

Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”

“The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.”

Way Has Beens Age Spirit Given Modern Hero Giants Cult Ants Spontaneity Cautious Obedient Specialization Hesitant Legalism

Book:Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Source: Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

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

Ifs Lawyer Gods Will God's Love Legalism

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.”

World Way Kind Real Ends Law Jesus Christ Simple Effort Struggle Grace Land Worst Dangerous Overcoming Setting Settings Obedience Combat Fulfilled Legalism

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.”

Turns Entitlement Legalism Complainers Sense Of Entitlement

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our religious traditions...We must no longer use the Bible as the Pharisees used the Torah when they gave it absolute and final status. Christian biblicism is no different from Jewish legalism. It is the old way of the letter, not the new way of the Spirit.”

“You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.”

Life Is Prayer Masters Discipline Please Musician Consequence Areas Scales Sheer Bondage True Freedom Legalism

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.”

Jesus Sin Pride Greed Hardest Hypocrisy Reserved Legalism

Author:Philip Yancey

“Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.”

Doe Worship Supreme Adore Legalism

Book:Hebrews, the Epistle of the Diatheke

Source: Hebrews, the Epistle of the Diatheke

“There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.”

Stills Form Law Glory Stones Crosses Bread Subtle Offering Crowns Moses Saviour Legalism

Book:Grace and Glory

Source: Grace and Glory

“On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you. I believe that if you find yourself enslaved inside a controlling church structure of legalism and bondage, then you are already being persecuted! So many Christians seem impossibly distracted from hearing God's voice. Instead of listening to that still, small voice that brings true peace and joy, they blindly follow the voices of mainstream religion. The worst kind of persecution for a Christian is when you are separated from the joy and presence of the Holy Spirit.”

“I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.”

Knows Hard Seems Ignorant Ritual Grounded Judaism Adherence Legalism

Author:Fred Melamed

“When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'”

Christian Church Christian Inspirational Legalism

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God's Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?”

Action Spiritual Christianity Opinion Standards Direct Mark Conviction Extremes Tolerance Theology Divided Biblical Fiber Postmodernism Legalism Truth Of God Spiritual Gifts

Author:John Stott

“Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that grace may abound'. That's the worse form of antinomianism. But strictly speaking, antinomianism simply means no-law, and some Christians have very little place for the law in their pursuit of holiness.”

May Mean Littles Problem Christian Form Law Church Sin Grace Pursuit Granted Holiness Legalism

Author:Kevin DeYoung

“The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.”

People Giving Produce Hard Work Morality Giving Up Harder Ironic Work Harder Immorality Legalism Moralism Ironic Things

Book:One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.”

Important Real Religious Practice Tradition Command Instance Conformity Nevertheless Requirements Unspoken Christendom Legalism

Author:Jerry Bridges

“If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.”

Ifs Feels Littles Christian Clever Fallen Subtle Mature Traps Gimmicks Legalism

Book:Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation

Source: Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation

“To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law of grace and love - but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind taboos and religious formalities, indeed from all empty forms of legalism.”

Firsts May Mean Christian Form Law Choices Christ Religious Grace Higher Empty And Love Blind Obligation Live By Superstitions Taboo Risen Formality Legalism Higher Law Grace And Love

Book:He is risen

Source: He is risen

“While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.”

Men Heart Made Matter Jobs Mistake Worst Crime Judgment Concerned Let Me Commit Offense Legalism

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.”

People Action Creative Knowing Protect Organization Innovation Structure Unusual Typical Bureaucracy Creative People Organizational Legalism Organizational Structure Knowledge And Action

Author:Max De Pree

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